Curator Clip Link web.config

Updated on December 10th, 2022

Open web.config in text editor On the IIS server, open IIS manager and browse to the Curator Clip Link directory by right clicking and selecting the explore option:

Open web.config file in a text editor.

Replace "Video Server Address" key value

Search for the "VideoServerAddress" key and replace the value with the fully qualified domain name for the IIS host and remove the trailing port.   Replace: <add key="VideoServerAddress" value="https://WEBSERVER" /> With: <add key="VideoServerAddress" value="https://IIS_HOST" />  

Image Proxy settings
Pull up the PROXY-V3 mediastore in Process Engine Monitor to see the metadata settings used in proxy creation. If the ProxySubFolderMetadataKey, ProxyFileMetadataKey values differ from the out of the box values ProxySubFolder and ProxyFile, you need to adjust the values for the keys "ImagePathMetadata", "ImageFileMetadata" in Curator Clip Link web.config to match. 
If the values match there is no further configuration for proxy previews.
The same process will be necessary when configuring the Curator for Adobe Image Proxy Settings.


Replace asset pop-up metadata tabs in order to configure different views

If you wish to configure additional or different metadata views in tabs, find the <AssetInfo> tag in web.config and configure this providing your view of choice, the name of the tab and whether to display metadata from the asset or its parent in this tab. With parent="true" for clipmarks this will be media metadata and nothing will display for popped up media, audio or images.

<AssetInfo>

   <Tabs>

      <Tab name="ViewName1" display="Displayed Name of Tab1" parent="false" />

      <Tab name="ViewName2" display="Displayed Name of Tab2" parent="false" />

  </Tabs>

</AssetInfo>



Enable Clip Link Walkthroughs

Search for:

<Appcues enabled="false" account="68366">

Change false to true:

<Appcues enabled="true" account="68366">



Configure pinned searches

In order to enable pinned searches you need to obtain the URL address of the Clip Link page that executed the desired search and provide an identifying image. The image should ideally be in SVG format or if not possible a bitmap image 30px by 30px on a white background.

By default Newest Assets pinned search is already configured.

Save the configuration of the web.config from the steps so far and open the CuratorClipLink application:  https://IIS_SERVER/CuratorClipLink

Execute the desired search in Clip Link and copy the URL of the page CuratorClipLink webpage, it will contain a coded search request, copy the entire string to a text editor, remove the leading website address https://IIS_SERVER/CuratorClipLink/  up to but not including first ? and replace all & with &amp; as is required for valid XML.

In the web.config locate the <pinnedSearches> tag and following statement <clear/>  and the <add ... /> for Newest Assets pinned search insert a new <add /> tag with these details:

  • image file name (imageFileName): the file must be added to the Content/Images/PinnedSearches folder of the deployment folder of CuratorClipLink;
  • tooltip: tooltip to display on hover;
  • search URL (searchParameters): the search to perform as copied above 
    this must be the part after the root URL (e.g. https://IIS_SERVER/CuratorClipLink/<searchParameters>). Note that and &s will need to be encoded, i.e., replace '&' as '&amp;'

Like so:

<pinnedSearches>
     <searches>
         <clear />
         <add imageFileName="Newest Assets.svg" tooltip="Newest assets" searchParameters="?assetFilter=159&amp;s=IngestDateTime&amp;d=1&amp;sd=Created+Date+Time" />
         <add imageFileName="myImage.png" tooltip="Random Search" searchParameters="?q=putt&amp;assetFilter=31&amp;Players=Rory%20McIlroy&amp;parent-Tour%20Name=PGA" />
     </searches>
</pinnedSearches>

Format these as in the example above, which assumes myImage.png is already placed in [CuratorClipLink deployment folder]/Content/Images/PinnedSearches folder on the IIS_SERVER and shows removed  https://IIS_SERVER/CuratorClipLink/ part and substitution of & to &amp;  

Here is an example of a more realistic search string copied from Curator ClipLink URL, especially with advanced search (from Curator 3.5.1) you should expect long string encoding the search and need to take care to copy the entire string to the end:

 <add imageFileName="IRbadge.svg" tooltip="Thunderbirds" searchParameters="?tid=gwAik&amp;assetFilter=159&amp;q=*DVC*+OR+Thunderbirds*&amp;s=IngestDateTime&amp;d=1&amp;sd=Created+Date+Time&amp;fs=true&amp;as=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" />


Finish Save the file.
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