The document discusses the Asset module in Drupal, which provides an intuitive way to manage file assets of any type. It notes that determining which modules to use for asset management was a problem area identified in the State of Drupal 2007 survey. The Asset module integrates with modules like CCK, Views, and Panels, and allows plug-and-play management of image, audio, and other asset types. Version 2.0 of the Asset module improved the user interface and added support for more file formats.

1. Asset management in
Drupal: the Asset module

2. State of Drupal 2007
 Survey running for 30+ days
 More than 1000 responses collected
 Problem areas:
− Determining what modules to use
− Difficult to add media files

3. Determining the module(s)
 So many different options:
− module creates a new content type (image)
− module adds a field to a content type (upload)
− module adss a cck field (filefield)
 Use one or more modules:
− One module per media type (audio, image, embed)
− One generic module (upload, filefield)

4. Difficult to add media files
 End-users
− Display assets as unified as possible
− Display assets as user-friendly as possible
 Editors
− Import files on the server
− Manage files already entered before
− WYSIWYG
− Create galleries
 Developers

5. What is the asset module?
The asset module provides
an intuitive method of
managing any type of file.

6. What is the asset module?
 Integrates with
− CCK
− Views
− Panels
− TinyMCE
− imagecache
− lightbox
− Jeroen Wijering's FLV Player
− 1 Pixel Out audio player

7. What is the asset module?
 Asset module
− Asset bonus
− Asset embed
− Asset import
− Asset panels
− Asset youtube

8. Asset wizard
 Images

9. Asset wizard
 Audio

10. Asset wizard
 FLV

11. Plug and play
 Just the asset module

12. Plug and play
 Asset module + TinyMCE

13. Plug and play
 Asset module + CCK

14. Make yourself comfortable
 Asset bonus configuration

15. Make yourself comfortable
 Asset bonus configuration: 1pixelout

16. Asset galleries
 Galleries using Views

17. Asset galleries
 Galleries using Panels

18. Asset 2.0
 Drupal 6
 Better GUI
 Pop-up be gone!
 New types and formatters
− PDF
− Google docs
− presentations
− ...

19. Asset 2.0

20. Thank you
Presentation by
Wim Mostrey
wim@mostrey.be
http://mostrey.be