Administration

Zoom Project Vault & Repository Schema Setup Best Practices

Target Audience: Super-admins, Super-users, Project-Admins Below are a few sample folder schemas you can draw inspiration from for your initial Zoom folder/project vault structure set up at the beginning of the Zoom project vault. This article presents the best practices for using Zoom project vaultss/folder structure based on scenarios encountered by various Evolphin Customers. Please note

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Manual DB sync-up in HADR mode

The Zoom High-Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) module automatically maintains all the configured Zoom server peers in sync, so that all of them serve the same data repository. However, at some times, such as when setting up a new peer, or after a peer’s DB location file system becomes permanently unavailable, a manual sync of the

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Archive and Restore for the End-Users

Zoom users can invoke archive or restore operations from various client interfaces like the command line, or from the Asset Browser. Check here for details about the configuration and management related to the archive module: Archive Management and Configuring Archive Module Archive From Asset Browser A user who is in a role with permission levels of EDIT_ALL will

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Zoom Metadata API

Metadata API Zoom metadata can be fetched by the Zoom Find command easily. Once you have the desired metadata for an asset, you can edit it using the SetMetadata API as described below. Request URL: Authentication Parameters: zm_username=<zoom-username> zm_cookie=<zoom-auth-cookie>, or, zm_password=<zoom-password> You should specify either one of the “zm_cookie” parameter or the “zm_password” parameter. If

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Zoom Preview Server API

This section covers the API invocations related to previews and thumbnails in Zoom. All JSON responses contain these standard fields: “success” : “true|false” “errorInfo” : “<Error msg if success is false, else this element will not be present>” “errorCode”: A key that exists in the Zoom message catalog Get Preview or Thumbnail Description:Get thumbnail or preview associated

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Customization and Re-branding Email Alerts

Customization of Notifications You can customize the email notifications sent at the time of various milestones. You can edit the content and/or modify the look-and-feel of the notifications. A file named “custom-messages.properties” and a set of templates are provided inside the “conf/mail-templates” folder in your deployment location. The properties file is organized into two sets

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Task Manager Application

Job and task definitions happen from within the web-based console using the workflow designer as we have seen so far. The Zoom application that comes in handy to actually run, track and monitor the job and tasks is the Task Manager. The job is started on creation if it is automatic, or can be started

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Setup Office Previews

Zoom does not by default provide previews of Microsoft Office documents like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. But with the custom format mechanism available in Zoom 5.2 or greater, there is a way to resolve this gap nicely. This post covers the steps needed to accomplish this exercise. Note: With version 8.0 or higher, we have made

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Archive Management

You can manage Zoom archive and restore operations to move content from online to offline storage (such as LTO, Cloud-based e.g. Amazon S3) as well check on the statuses of assets in the repository from the Web-based Administration Console. Make sure you have the appropriate license and have configured the archive location as shown in the

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Zoom Custom Formats

In 5.2 or greater, Zoom custom formats can be used to control how previews can be rendered for assets stored in the repository. Zoom bundles preview generation tools that by default generate previews for a wide variety of file types. Over and above that, Zoom also provides the necessary hooks for the administrators to configure Zoom’s internal or any external preview-generation tool.

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Backup Zoom Servers

Zoom Database Server Backup It is always important when installing Zoom to have a backup plan for key files in the unfortunate event that a system failure occurs. Fortunately, backing up the Zoom system can be configuring any enterprise backup system. Zoom’s RevDB database allows the database to be backed up even while Zoom is

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Configuring Archive Module

Available Archive Modules Enable Archive Management License Archiving is an optional feature that is available only to deployments that hold an appropriate license. You can check your license information in Zoom’s web-based administration console. To check the license information, log on to your administration console in a browser at a URL like this: http://zoomserver:8443/ From

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Configuring LDAP

For many organizations, LDAP Server is a key way to allow their users to log into multiple systems. Evolphin Zoom has native support to integrate with your LDAP Server, including popular Directory Services, like Microsoft Active Directory and Novell Directory Service. The following instructions provide you with information on how to fetch the desired subset

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Configuring Preview Server

The Preview Server enables preview generation for the Zoom setup. It acts as a cache between various Zoom Clients and the Zoom Server.Preview Server needs a running Zoom server to work with, without any Zoom server Preview Server won’t work and can’t serve the request. Prerequisites/Checklist Up and Running Zoom server. It may be on

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