Part I. WACS Administration Tutorial

This part of the WACS Administration Guide is designed to introduce you to managing collections of image sets and videos using the WACS tools. In order to work through the examples, you will almost certainly need access to a non-production WACS server and a reasonable collection of sample content. Since 2010 the WACS developers have made available a small set of sample content through our WACS demonstration site, PinkMetallic.com which at the time of writing can be accessed for free. At some future time a small charge may be levied to cover running costs.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Overview
About This Book
About The Examples
2. First Steps
User Class
Authentication Mode
Changing Your Role (Leases)
Changing Your Role (Permanent)
Everything Looks Different
3. Site Design
Overview: Laying Out Your WACS Site
Simplistic Layout
Vendor Mode
Gallery Mode
Summary
4. Naming Sets In WACS
Goals In Naming Sets
How It Works
Keyword Scoring
Heavily Used Keywords
Multiple Sets: Duplicates, Alternatives and Continuations
About Rank
Set Relations
5. Preparing To Create A Model Record
Introduction
Headshot Image Preparation
Making The Big Icon
Making The Small Icon
Icon Placement
Determining The Site Id
6. wacsmodelmgr - The Wacs Model Manager
Introduction
Creating A New Model
Basic Attributes
Inserting Model Records
Amending Model Records
7. wacsunpackmgr - The Unpack Manager
About Unpacking
Working With Image Sets
Already Unpacked Warning
Working With Videos
8. wacsplacemgr - The Placement Manager
The Placement Process
9. Wacs Set Manager
Meta Data Manipulation
What You Can Edit
Doing An Update
10. The Info Manager
Managing Additional Information
Example Of Using wacsinfomgr
11. Other Web Based Tools
What's Available
Association Manager
Connections Manager
Keyword Manager
Vendor Manager
Photographer Manager
12. Migration Tools
About Migration
wacsexport - Exporting Model Details
wacsimport - Importing Model Details
wacsxmlout - Exporting Set Details
wacsxmlin - Importing Set Details
wacsselout - Exporting Selections
wacsselin - Importing Selections
13. When Using Wacs For Hosting
Overview
Self Referential Download Records
Creating Download Records
Content Caching Mechanisms
How The Caching Works
The More Complex Features Of Caching
Using wacsvidcomb to make compilations
A Few Final Words About Hosting
14. The Download System
Overview
The Changing Face Of Downloads
Components Of The Download System
chkmodel
refresh
getarc
wacsdnlnext
Wacs Download manager
Configuring Automatic Download
Defining Sites
Using cron For Unattended Download
15. More About Model Manager
Additional features
Importing XML files in wacsmodelmgr
Identity Management Mode
Manually Adding An IDmap
The WACS ID Manager
Importing IDs From XML
16. The WACS Icon Manager
Introduction
17. Command Line Tools
Overview
Data Manuipulation
The addmodel Command
The addassoc Command
The wacsdelset Command
Processing Applications
The wacsgenimg Command (formerly generate)
The wacsgenvid Command (formerly genvideo)
The wacsupdinfo Command (formerly updateinfo)
The wacsvidcomb Command
The wacscachectl Command
Automatic Collection Maintenance Tools
The wacsupdstat Command (formerly updatestats)
The wacsblogctl Command
18. Customisation
Introduction
Creating The XML File
How to set the Usage rules
The Completed XML file
19. Simple Tasks In SQL
What is SQL?
Example Tasks in SQL
Adding A New Type Of Attire
Creating A Video Download Record
20. Using SQL: Advanced Topics
Introduction
Merging Models