01- A better media repository. I have 8 different Experiences that use many different videos. But there is one video that is common among them. With the current version of the HCMS, if I create 8 different bases, I will need to upload this video 8 times. What a waste of space, time, and bandwidth. A better option would be to upload my media to a library/folder in my HCMS, and then just select which one I need to use with each base.
02- My bases are growing. I need a better way to organize them. Sorting and filtering is the minimum. Tagging would be a bonus. But creating a category or a folder for bases is a must eventually.
07- When I load an image to my content in HCMS, all I see is a small icon that represents the image. Although you can see the name of the image at the bottom of the browser Window if you hover over it, it would be better if I see the name of the image included with the icon.
This may be pretty obvious, but I’ll throw it out there anyway:
In addition to experience-specific bases, I’ve started using ‘shared’ or ‘common’ bases to hold data that I want to have available in multiple experiences (like type styles/settings/common icons). Think of it kind of like an experience layer that carries data between scenes, but these bases carry data between experiences. This way, if I use a common naming convention, I can use equal filters to apply a group of settings (from my common/shared base) to an item or data set in a specific experience.
You can already do that, since you can import multiple bases in a single experience.
In such cases, you might think about using variants instead of filters, where this “common base” would have multiple variations, for each of your individual experiences.
Thanks for all your suggestions! I didn’t come back to you earlier because I wanted to check with our product team and so far, they are all (except #8 maybe) in our roadmap
The next major milestone is the Excel / CSV import/export, so stay tuned !
@Seb you do not have to come back. I am just listing them whenever I could think of a feature that I think is missing based on my experience with other traditional DS CMSs. We want it to be one of a kind that has the best of everything. We want it to be the Micheal Jordan, Zaidan, and Mark Knopfler of all CMSs.
I’m already partially doing that with variants for some of the items (like icons). So far, it seems that some of the other settings are better as collections for the way I have things set up. Thanks for the hints.
Reordering rows with a drag and drop or cut and paste. It should be an urgent feature. Imagine this scenario:
1- Uploaded video A into row 1. Video A is 3 GB large
2- Uploaded video B into row 2. Video B is 3 GB large
The client wanted to change the sequence. So, I have to delete video a from row 1 and upload video B. Then delete video B from row 2, and upload video A. If you have a slow internet connection, then…
We have a great horizontal and vertical view of the content. It is time for the card view. Sorting would even be easier. This is also an important and urgent feature that is very much needed.
15- A base can have a few structures (say A,B,C,D). A good idea. However, it is not a good idea when you have different experiences and each Experience uses only one or two structures. But when syncing, Composer and the player will sync all the contents of all the structures. A workaround would be to create a few bases. but this means you have to repeat the sharing.
