This release introduces a new media editor, currently for images. Permitted users can access the media editor from the Content Item detail view or from within an embed. Using this feature, users can create and download optimized images for webshops, websites, landing pages, social media, or any other purpose.

The media editor allows you to make advanced transformations and image optimizations dynamically without changing the original. You can see the results instantly in the preview on the right. You can execute various modifications and validate your results enabling or disabling them, also chaining everything together for multi-layered optimizations.

The following optimization actions are available:

• Crop, resize, rotate, sharpen.

• Alpha channel transparency (replace).

• Conversion into JPG, PNG, or TIFF.

• Rename default filename for SEO purposes.

When used as an embed link, website managers can directly reference images from Picturepark without the need of being stored in another environment such as an e-commerce store or Web CMS. Picturepark supports all of the above manipulations either via the visual image editor or by changing the URL. If this shall not be permitted, changing editors can lock the settings in the URL from further manipulation.

When using embed links for media optimization, we highly recommend using a Content Delivery Network (CDNs) such as Fastly CDN to ensure high-performing and reliable 24x7 global delivery.

You can also access all media optimization features via dedicated image conversion API endpoints.

Example Embed Links

All transformations are applied dynamically on the original file. We just changed the cropping rectangle and its position with the parameters in brackets, which you can see in the URL of the files. You can further change the crop values or remove them completely to see the original file.

This release now also brings Business Rules to list items, previously limited to content items. This yields new capabilities, such as:

• Create numbers for product lists, such as for creating unique product IDs.

• Send notifications when list items are created or updated. You can notify a user or users of a specific user role when somebody creates or modifies a product, event, collection, or simply a tag.

• Run business rules for list items on a schedule, e.g., validate list items every day and flag them when expired or other criteria apply.

• Trigger service providers (integrations) when list items are created or modified, such as exporting content to 3rd party systems.

Additional real-world use cases include:

• Inform your webshop when product items change via a service provider.

• Remove product items from your webshop when modified and not yet approved via service provider; inform your product managers that these products require approval.

• Update product items in your webshop via a service provider.

• Add list item numbering following a company naming convention using business rule sequence numbers, e.g., product numbers or inventory numbers.

• Inform your legal department when consent agreements of your employees and partners expire.

Much more is possible - please contact a Picturepark consultant for a review of your use cases.

The Business Rule executes actions for a single list item, not for the list. Activities such as creating or moving list items to other lists are not supported currently, but we added the feature request to the roadmap.

In the configuration for Business Rules, you find the new scope for list items. Be aware that the visible conditions and actions are not filtered, so you will see conditions and actions that are not available for list items. If applied, Business Rules will skip these from execution.

Audit Information in Business Rules

Furthermore, audit and owner information is available in Business Rules. This change permits such business rules to access information about the owner, the creating and last modifying user together with the dates, supporting new conditional business processes, such as:

• If a European agency user imports content, notify the global content manager group.

• If your taxonomist (identified by email) tags data, then automatically mark it as “final.”

• If the creating user has not tagged newly created content or list items after some days, send a reminder notification.

You can access the audit information via a variable $$audit$$ under transformations, e.g., extracting a single value and then looking up this value in a list to find a matching tag or further transforming the value. The supported audit information includes:

• created by user information (name, email, status)

• creation date and time

• modified by user information (name, email, status)

• modified date and time

This release allows customization of the share page. This page serves as a landing page where your users find shared Content Items for viewing and downloading.

• You can customize how the thumbnails are displayed; so if you want to have a grid or a list.

• You can disable or enable the terms of service your users have to accept then.

• You can disable or enable the cookie consent, so if your users allow cookies, saved in the user’s browser.