When you really start to get into web stack/cloud solutions, you’ll find pretty quickly that having multiple pieces of software talk to each other gets a lot easier. No more worrying about network visibility, opening ports in firewalls, etc. Generally speaking, you talk JSON to an API. Put some information here. Get some information there. … Continue reading “iconik ❤️ Slack”
Recently I was asked if P5 could automatically archive an entire folder based not on the modification of the folder itself, but instead on the modification time of the contents of the folder (files and subdirectories). The goal was to enable a “cold folder” automation that can automatically clean entire projects from storage based on … Continue reading “Archive folders based on the modification date of their files using Archiware P5”
Now that Cantemo’s iconik system is live and available, I thought it would be time to show of some examples of automation in a cloud based system like this. It is a little different than working with pure on-prem systems and there are a few things that we need to go over first. First and … Continue reading “Using Webhooks in Cantemo iconik to auto analyze new items”
For a while now I’ve been asked if there is an easy way to mass populate metadata fields with a list of choices in Portal. In the back of my mind I thought it would probably be relatively simple to write a simple parser to do this, and I’ve done just that. It can be … Continue reading “Bulk adding choices to Cantemo Portal metadata fields from generic text files”
Not too long ago I wrote an article about how to create hierarchical metadata fields using Cantemo’s REST API. Given that this was really more of a “how to” and not a real world use case, I decided that I’d try and tackle a commonly asked for hierarchical field – worldwide location. The goal … Continue reading “Creating Cantemo Portal Hierarchy Metadata Field content from external sources”