Settings and preferences

There are several ways in which you can determine the behavior of your DAM. Some of the settings described determine behavior across your entire account, and some of the settings are specific to each product environment:

• From the Media Library, you can determine options per product environment:

  • Set your Media Library preferences for the behavior and/or appearance of the Media Library.
  • Extend the core functionality of your DAM by adding apps from the App Marketplace.

• From the Cloudinary Console Settings pages, you can:

  • Determine options for the entire account:
    • My profile: Enables you to edit your personal information and set your Media Library display language.
    • Account: Settings that affect your entire account, include upgrading your plan, updating your account details, and adding or editing the product environments to your account.
    • Users: Enables you to create and manage users in your account.
  • Determine options per product environment:
    • Upload: Settings that influence how media is uploaded, stored, and delivered in your product environment.
    • Security: Settings that affect how assets are shared and delivered in your product environment.

Media Library preferences

Media Library preferences enable you to control the behavior and/or appearance of the Media Library for a product environment, such as determining the way custom metadata is displayed and maintained or what is included in the results when you run an Advanced Search.

To access the Media Library preferences, click Preferences from the Product Navigation menu:

After you modify and save modifications to the Media Library preferences, logged in users may need to refresh their browsers to apply the changes.

The defaults in the Media Library Preferences provide a good starting place for your Digital Asset Management activities. However, each organization should review all the available options in the Media Library Preferences pane to determine the options that best answer its needs.

Localization

In the Media Library Preferences, you can customize the user interface for your product environment by setting the default display language. The selected language becomes the default language for the Media Library, Manage Structured Metadata page (admins only), as well as for publicly shared collections and media portals.

Individual users in the DAM as well as viewers of publicly shared collections and media portals can switch languages in the relevant interface.

For users within the DAM, the language they select is a global setting that applies to all product environments they have access to.

Advanced Search filter options

You can select and order up to 10 filters that will be permanently displayed in the Advanced Search. The filters that you don't select are still accessible and can be added by the user while performing a search.

Download options for external sharing

From the Media Library preferences, you can select whether or not the option to download original images and videos will be displayed in published collections and media portals, which are shared with stakeholders outside your organization.

• If you select Remove option to download original images and videos:

  • The option to download original images and videos won't be offered.
  • This admin setting can't be overwritten when publishing an individual collection or creating a media portal.

• If you deselect Remove option to download original images and videos:

  • The option to download originals will be offered.
  • The option to download original images and videos can still be removed when publishing a specific collection or creating a media portal.

• Whether you select or deselect Remove option to download original images and videos:

  • Original images and videos can be previewed.
  • The option to download original raw assets is offered.

Early access

Check the Early access option for features that you can enable for your team early, before they become available automatically.

Currently, you can enable early access to the new Advanced Editor (Transformation Builder) with an improved, simple and easy to use interface.

Cloudinary Console Settings

In addition to defining Media Library preferences, you can configure additional settings that influence your account as a whole, as well as how your media is uploaded, stored, and delivered within the currently selected product environment. Some Settings affect both DAM users and developers, so you should coordinate with your developers where relevant.

Click the Settings icon in the Console Options sidebar to view your Console Settings.

The default Console Settings provide a good starting place for your Digital Asset Management activities. However, each organization should review all the available options on all the Settings pages and determine the settings that best answer your organization's needs.

The following sections highlight a few of the common settings that you may want to consider when setting up your account and product environment.

Account settings

The settings in this section affect your entire account. You can use this section to update your personal account details, upgrade your plan, define/edit users in the account or add/editing the product environments in your account.

Upload settings

The Upload page includes options that impact the default behavior applied to media when you upload assets to your product environment. Those you may want to pay special attention to include:

• Automatic backup: Determines whether every uploaded file is securely backed up, including support for multiple revisions. When enabled, the backups increase your account's storage usage (unless you set a private S3 or Google Cloud bucket for your backups).

• Media Library upload presets: Upload Presets are a predefined set of upload preferences. To control the way all assets are uploaded via the Media Library, you can assign specific signed upload presets to act as the defaults for image, video, and raw uploads within the Media Library. For more information, see Managing upload presets in the DAM.

Security settings

The options in the Security page mainly affect the API and asset delivery, and impact the selected product environment. To configure these settings, coordinate with one of your developers.

However, the Allow delivery of PDF and ZIP files setting, in addition to determining whether PDF and ZIP files can be programmatically delivered, also affects asset and collection sharing in the Media Library. This setting must be turned on in order to publish collections and to publish single assets that are PDF and ZIP files (including .zip, .rar, .tgz, .gz, .bz2, .bzip, .7z, and .pdf).

Apps for DAM

You can customize and enhance the Media Library core product by selecting apps to add to your product environment. Enable the apps that are relevant to your DAM users from the set of apps that have been made available.

To access the Media Library apps, select App Marketplace from the Product Navigation menu.

Read the description on the cover of each app and click Learn more... for more information about what each app has to offer, including a quick demo. Then, enable the ones that are useful to you and your team. Once you've enabled your apps, you can access them from the relevant menus in the Media Library.