Using The Main DC-X Integration

Once the DC-X integration is correctly installed and configured, DC-X appears as a secondary search panel on the left side of the CUE window:

When expanded, the DC-X panel looks and behaves like the main CUE search panel with the following differences:

It offers access to DC-X assets, rather than ordinary CUE content
The search and filtering options reflect the search and filtering functionality provided by DC-X

Each DC-X asset is represented in the panel search results by an entry consisting of a thumbnail preview image, a title, description, owner and a series of DCX flags describing attributes of the asset such as its resolution, whether it is an online-only asset, whether it is expensive and so on:

To use DC-X assets in a publication, you simply drag them from the search results list and drop them in an appropriate location in a content item, in exactly the same way as you would drop images and videos selected from the ordinary search panel. When an asset is dropped in this way, a content item of the appropriate type is created for it, and a copy of the binary object is stored in the Content Store. The copied object is marked to indicate it is a DC-X asset, and the new content item is set to a state defined in the DC-X drop trigger configuration (or draft if the drop trigger configuration does not specify a state). If the dropped asset has been dropped before and already exists as a content item in CUE, then that content item is used and its state is not modified.

If you have a DC-X client running on the same machine as CUE, you can also drag assets directly from the DC-X client into CUE. Assets added in this way behave in exactly the same way as assets dragged from the DC-X search panel in CUE.

Information about the use of DC-X assets in CUE is reported back to DC-X. The usage information is recorded in DC-X as follows:

Assets related to a published story are assigned a usage entry with the state Published, along with the publication date and URL of the story.
Assets related to a story that is not published (or to the working copy of a published story) are assigned a usage entry with the state Planned.

When assets are removed from a story, the corresponding usage entry is removed from DC-X. This usage information is displayed in the DC-X Usage tab.

Depending on how the system has been configured, video and graphic content uploaded to CUE from other sources may be automatically passed on to DC-X for storage. The system can be configured to only store certain content types in DC-X, and only if they are added to specific content items. In additi

on, they may not actually be uploaded to DC-X until they reach a specified state in the workflow.

CUE's General Info metadata panel section contains a DAM info field that shows information about the current status of content items that meet the requirements for upload to DC-X. It can contain the following status messages:

Upload not initiated: The content item has not yet reached the workflow state that triggers upload.
Uploading: Upload is in progress.
error-code: Upload failed.
dcx-document-id (a long random string): Upload has succeeded.