Beginner's Guide

MEDIA MANAGER
The media manager is Joomla's little Digital Asset Management System (DAM)
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. If you are
managing content, you will need a place to store the files. Files are all the images, PDFs and whatever
you decide to mention in your content. Usually these digital assets consist of the file and additional meta
data. In this case, we need an easy-to-use tool to manage our files. Let's have a look at what is possible
with the Joomla core media manager.
How it works
To me it looks more like a file manager. Everyone knows the Windows explorer or the OSX finder. In
Joomla they call it "media manager". It has a base directory where all the files are stored. You can look at
your files in two different ways using your browser: via a Thumbnail View (Figure 1) and a Detailed View
(Figure 2). It is possible to navigate through the folders by clicking on them.
Figure 1: Media Manager - Thumbnail View
Figure 2: Media Manager - Detailed View
You can create as many additional folders as you wish. In the Detailed View, you are able to delete
folders and files. You’ll find the same structure in the Joomla administration backend as you can see in
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_asset_management