Application Interface
Application Interface
Clicking on an object will open a page with several menus, quick access links, viewer, properties and relations. The page is divided into the following sections:
- Application Header - Shows overall LAPIS header with search, main menus, activities, messages, emails, calendar, notifications, language, and user info
- Search Bar - Visible when toggled by the search button in Application Header or when search results are displayed
- Object Header - Contains breadcrumb, object title, optional version information, object type, object menu, optional object quick actions buttons
- Object View - Displays the current object with the view for its type
- Application Resizable Left Side Bar - Shows default and custom application widgets
- Optional Dockable Resizable Right Side Bar - Drag-drop any object or widget to the right of the screen to show it in the right side bar
- Dock-able Widgets Bar - Drag-drop any object or widget to the bottom right of the screen for quick access (here are shown minimized objects and widgets)
- Application Footer - General information about the licenses and quick access to Help
Application Header
- Search - Provides quick access to overall search of the system
- Dictation - Allows voice dictations when enabled
- Create New Menu - Access to a menu from where you can create new objects
- My Area Menu - Lists all jobs and materials owned by you or assigned to you
- Operations Menu - General ingest, archive and import operations
- Workflows Menu - For creating new workflows and monitoring workflow instances and definitions
- Administration Menu - For administration of system’ data types and permissions
- Activities - Lists all activities of all users of the system
- Messages - New and active chats
- Emails - Quick access to received emails when the incoming email provider is activated
- Calendar - Shows all projects, tasks or other events with start and end date
- Notifications - Lists all notifications for everything your user is subscribed to be notified about
- Language - Application’ UI language
- Display Menu - select light/dark mode and themes
- User Menu - Shows user profile, user's subscriptions and logout
Search Bar
Quick access to search templates
Free form search bar or search bar for typing any search using our search language
Advanced Search
Saves an advanced search selection for further usage
Object Header
Breadcrumb
Title
Title, optional version number, quick switching between versions by clicking on the version and type of object
Object’s Menu
It displays all proper actions for the corresponding object type and varies depending on the type of object. The Media Actions are: Add Bookmark, Add Content, Archive, Attach File(s), Begin Versioning, Change Property, Copy, Create Marker, Create New Version, Delete, Download, Edit, Export, Import Metadata, Pop Out Window, Relate To, Transcode, Transcribe, Transcribe and Translate, DRM Encode, Transfer, Update Content.
Quick Actions Buttons
Object View
Media Display
The Media controls are: play, previous frame, next frame, mute, volume, current position, duration, remaining time, subtitles/captions, audio streams, mark-in chunk start, mark-out and create a new chunk, create a point marker at current position, picture-in-picture and full screen
Chunks and markers display
Chunks Timeline
Chunks and markers have their own properties, activities, views and actions and can also be treated separately. The available actions for them are: Add Bookmark, Attach File(s), Begin Versioning, Change Property, Copy, Delete, Edit, Export, Merge Markers, Pop Out Window, Relate to, Set In, Set Out, Split Marker, Transcode, Download, etc.
Audio display has the same content area and control bars as the video:
Audio waveform is generated automatically and displayed.
Subtitles viewer and editor looks like this:
Subtitles editor provides features for inserting, deleting, merging, splitting, timing, automatically translating and positioning subtitles/captions in SRT and WebVTT formats.
Other content types such as images, documents, excel sheets, presentations can also be opened with the viewer as shown:
Activities
Activities are from two main types: comments and activity logs.
Comments are used for real time comments and notes. They can be formatted with colors, fonts, styles, etc and edited if needed.
Activities are keeping track of the changes done to this object(file) as shown:
When expanding the Contents list, you can see and have a quick access to all associated contents such as subtitles, audio streams, documents, videos, proxy, etc:
The contents have their own local menu with appropriate actions such as: Add Bookmark, Add Content, Archive, Begin Versioning, Change Property, Copy, Create Marker, Delete, Download, Edit, Export, Import Metadata, Relate To,, Transcode, Transcribe, Transfer, Update Content, Pop Out Window, etc.
When expanding the Transformations list, you have a list and quick access to all the transformations of this media such as thumbnails, preview, etc:
The transformations have their own menu with appropriate actions such as: Add Bookmark, Attach File, Begin Versioning, Change Property, Copy, Delete, Download, Edit, Export, Import Metadata, Relate To, Transfer, Update Content, Pop Out Window, etc.
Transformed From shows the original media from where the transformation has been initiated:
All contents and transformations have their own IDs, activities, views, properties, relations and actions.
Relations
Relations are used to link information from various types as shown below:
The relations can be in one direction or another. They can also be removed if not needed any longer.
Properties
The properties are the metadata of the file. There are standard default properties and custom properties defined by the system administrator(s). The properties placement can be customized for New, View and Edit screens. For more information about how to create new properties and property placements, please consult the corresponding sections.
Properties have Quick Edit and Save as shown:
They can be localized in multiple languages and the localized versions can be added with the + as shown:
Properties can be of various types such as text, integer, symbol, etc.
Container, tag, category are properties used for categorizing files.
Permissions can be set for an individual object (file) for individual users and user groups by allowing and denying operations as shown:
Related Media Links Sidebar
Displays all contents, transformations and optionally a link to the original media
When expanding the Contents list, you can see and have a quick access to all associated contents such as subtitles, audio streams, documents, videos, proxy, etc:
The contents have their own local menu with appropriate actions such as: Add Bookmark, Add Content, Archive, Begin Versioning, Change Property, Copy, Create Marker, Delete, Download, Edit, Export, Import Metadata, Relate To,, Transcode, Transcribe, Transfer, Update Content, Pop Out Window, etc.
When expanding the Transformations list, you have a list and quick access to all the transformations of this media such as thumbnails, preview, etc:
The transformations have their own menu with appropriate actions such as: Add Bookmark, Attach File, Begin Versioning, Change Property, Copy, Delete, Download, Edit, Export, Import Metadata, Relate To, Transfer, Update Content, Pop Out Window, etc.
Transformed From shows the original media from where the transformation has been initiated:
All contents and transformations have their own IDs, activities, views, properties, relations and actions.