Scaleflex announces the EOL (End Of Life) of the Filerobot Widget release v2
The milestone events, descriptions, and dates are shown below.
Customers with active Support contracts will continue to receive support from the Scaleflex Support, per the terms and conditions specified in the support contract.
In order to avoid any inconvenience or disruption of Services, we recommend to our Customers having implemented the Filerobot Widget v2 to migrate to the v3.
Status
Phase 1 - migration plan layout, no new features developed for v2 (until February 1st, 2023)
Phase 2 - POCs and final version (until August 1st, 2023)
Phase 3 - v2 no longer supported (September 30, 2023)
Step by step tutorial
All Widget functions and APIs for v2 version should remain compatible, however some advanced and new features will not be available unless the Widget used in the custom implementation is migrated to v3.
Be aware that no further developments will be published for the v2 Widget version, from February 1st 2023.
Please refer to the relevant NPM repository for more detailed instructions: LINK
A modern asset uploader, picker and modular gallery with embedded image editor to deliver modern media asset-centric experiences
The MAW is a file uploader and media gallery in one easy-to-integrate modal or inline widget. It is the storefront of the DAM and enables accelerated uploads through DAM's content ingestion network and reverse CDN.
Module
Required
Description
yes
Displays the folder structure and media gallery and provides file management capabilites.
yes
Handles multipart file upload.
no
Displays upload/download progress in a status bar.
no
Displays pop-up messages/statuses related to file operations.
no
Thumbnail generator for different file type previews.
no
Inline image editor with functionalities such as filters, crop, resizing, watermark, collages, etc.... Also used by other features of the Widget such as the variant generator and export function.
no
Inline image annotation and comment feed for people to collaborate on media assets.
no
Captures photos or videos from the device's camera and upload them to the Filerobot storage container.
no
Device screen recorder and uploader
no
Inline image editor prior the actual upload of the image to, for example, upload a resized version of a large image into the storage container.
Framework
Link to code snippet
React
Vanilla (plain) JS
Some of the key capabilities of the Widget are:
Single and multi-file uploads into the DAM
Optimized for mobile
Upload via Drag & Drop or Copy & Paste
Upload from 3rd party storages such as Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Facebook, Instagram
Webcam and screencast integration to upload real-time videos and screen recordings
File explorer and media gallery with file management capabilities (folder creation, file move, rename, ...)
Zipped download of multiple files
File versioning with history, version browsing
File and media asset sharing via accelerated CDN links
Media gallery with powerful search capabilities based on tags and customizable metadata (taxonomy)
AI-based tagging of images
Embedded Filerobot Image Editor for inline image editing
Image annotator and comments for collaboration
Image variant generator with customizable template to generate optimal sizes for social media posts (example)
Native support of Blurhash from our friends at Wolt for compact representation of a placeholder for an image
Post-upload video transcoding for delivering HLS & DASH playlists for adaptive streaming
On-the-fly image resizing via DMO
A demo page of the FMAW with all modules enabled is available here.