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Important: If upgrading from a version of artbox prior to 3.2.6, make sure you follow all the upgrade notes for each intervening release.
"Edit-in-place" allows users to directly access asset "primary representations" through artbox. This functionality is only available to clients running on Mac OS or Windows. Filesystem, Contentbase, SMB, NFS and FTP devices are supported. For a client to make use of this functionality is must be able to make an smb share to the root of the given device.
Supported devices now have two new fields, "Macintosh EIP URI" and "Windows EIP URI". These fields should be "file:" URI paths that point to the base of the associated device (usually smb paths).
Currently the mount on the mac has to be manually mounted. There is also a new security action "Edit Media" that can be configured for each user group.
There are two ways you can use the "Edit-in-place" functionality in the Java UI.
If the Java client supports EIP for a given asset the "Edit Media" option will be available in the asset context menu. When you select this option the source file will be opened with a native application associated with the source file type.
Click the area below the asset that says "Click here to access" If the task bar says "Drag to application (original)" you are able to drag the asset source to an application in your client (ie. Edit-in-place). if the task bar says "Drag to desktop (copy)" you only have a copy of the original asset source (ie. no Edit-in-place).