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Drag and drop issues within Cumulus - Version: 7.1.1, 9/5/2007 07:34AM PST
walter.kuhn
Cumulus 7.1.1 has dramatic improvements over version 6.6 we were using. We're experiencing an issue in 7.l.1 which I was wondering if others have experienced.
We're having drag and drop issues with the new Cumulus version. On our Macs running Mac OS X 10.4.10, a user will select an asset which causes a green circle with a plus sign to appear. As the user drags the asset to a new category on the left side, they are unable to drop the asset into a new category. The green circle with a plus sign does not appear and when working, a blue box will appear around the category the user attempts to drop into but in this example, none of this occurs. Has anyone else experienced this issue. How did you fix this problem?
I'm working with the software vendor we bought the Cumulus app from but have not received any working resolution.
We're having drag and drop issues with the new Cumulus version. On our Macs running Mac OS X 10.4.10, a user will select an asset which causes a green circle with a plus sign to appear. As the user drags the asset to a new category on the left side, they are unable to drop the asset into a new category. The green circle with a plus sign does not appear and when working, a blue box will appear around the category the user attempts to drop into but in this example, none of this occurs. Has anyone else experienced this issue. How did you fix this problem?
I'm working with the software vendor we bought the Cumulus app from but have not received any working resolution.
Drag and drop issues within Cumulus - Version: 7.1.1, 9/5/2007 07:32AM PST
walter.kuhn
Cumulus 7.1.1 has dramatic improvements over version 6.6 we were using. We're experiencing an issue in 7.l.1 which I was wondering if others have experienced.
We're having drag and drop issues with the new Cumulus version. On our Macs running Mac OS X 10.4.10, a user will select an asset which causes a green circle with a plus sign to appear. As the user drags the asset to a new category on the left side, they are unable to drop the asset into a new category. The green circle with a plus sign does not appear and when working, a blue box will appear around the category the user attempts to drop into but in this example, none of this occurs. Has anyone else experienced this issue. How did you fix this problem?
I'm working with the software vendor we bought the Cumulus app from but have not received any working resolution.
We're having drag and drop issues with the new Cumulus version. On our Macs running Mac OS X 10.4.10, a user will select an asset which causes a green circle with a plus sign to appear. As the user drags the asset to a new category on the left side, they are unable to drop the asset into a new category. The green circle with a plus sign does not appear and when working, a blue box will appear around the category the user attempts to drop into but in this example, none of this occurs. Has anyone else experienced this issue. How did you fix this problem?
I'm working with the software vendor we bought the Cumulus app from but have not received any working resolution.
Canto really hit the mark with this version 
- Version: 7.0, 8/7/2006 04:52PM PST
(0 of 4 users found this comment useful)
Press-Dude
I think they really hit the mark with this version. Stable, OSX native and waaaay faster!
The new features are great. I just wish that there were more modules to use with the actions functionality out of the box.
The Quark integration is great, the InDesign integration is not as strong but is still a leap in the right direction.
They are still on top of it for Digital RAW formats.
It may not detect parent child relationships with files but you can now create Master/Slave files or "variations". This goes well with the new split panel thumbnail screen, where the lower split screen displays the relation assets to the one you have selected in the primary screen.
I Haven't done much with the scheduler yet, so I really can't comment too much on it.
Web Publisher Pro and Internet Client pro have a completely different feel. Same ideas just much faster. AJAX is behind the new sites so it requires a little more know how to edit. But fortunately not as much editing is need since record view sets now work with the client and the web, all configured just from the client. This goes for saved queries, collections and category view sets.
The only downer is that you can't set independent action to convert each asset the same way you did in 3.0 when downloading.
Using the Cumulus 7 Java Classes to update the Helios Companion yields a huge jump in performance. The JC handles the loads much better as well as cataloging and updating files much faster.
All in all its the best release Canto has had yet!!
Two Thumbs up!
The new features are great. I just wish that there were more modules to use with the actions functionality out of the box.
The Quark integration is great, the InDesign integration is not as strong but is still a leap in the right direction.
They are still on top of it for Digital RAW formats.
It may not detect parent child relationships with files but you can now create Master/Slave files or "variations". This goes well with the new split panel thumbnail screen, where the lower split screen displays the relation assets to the one you have selected in the primary screen.
I Haven't done much with the scheduler yet, so I really can't comment too much on it.
Web Publisher Pro and Internet Client pro have a completely different feel. Same ideas just much faster. AJAX is behind the new sites so it requires a little more know how to edit. But fortunately not as much editing is need since record view sets now work with the client and the web, all configured just from the client. This goes for saved queries, collections and category view sets.
The only downer is that you can't set independent action to convert each asset the same way you did in 3.0 when downloading.
Using the Cumulus 7 Java Classes to update the Helios Companion yields a huge jump in performance. The JC handles the loads much better as well as cataloging and updating files much faster.
All in all its the best release Canto has had yet!!
Two Thumbs up!
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- Geezz....
Finally an improvement and some 
- Version: 7.0, 7/24/2006 07:06AM PST
strahler2001@aol.com
After not so satisfying Cumulus 6.5 I am back to being happy (and getting things done) using Cumulus with version 7. User Interface has much improved and now I can finally split the veiw to see the relationships between my media. Haven't checked all new features but so far so good and our admin seems delighted as catalog size can now be 1TerraByte and he now finally has the power over our creative team (an admins dream!) as he can set our permissions for each single asset. We are using a Cumulus 7 Business Server Solution with 35 people, so far no complaints, let's see how this develops.
Two tech duds marry? - Version: 7.0, 7/6/2006 01:16PM PST
(3 of 3 users found this comment useful)
bwickens
From the Canto home page:
Quark and Canto announce Strategic Alliance - Delivering integrated digital asset management and page layout solutions for the creative markets (More >>)
Quark and Canto announce Strategic Alliance - Delivering integrated digital asset management and page layout solutions for the creative markets (More >>)
This does not sound very good - Version: 6.6, 5/23/2006 05:32AM PST
(4 of 4 users found this comment useful)
mfix--2008
...unfortunately I have to agree with the other posters. Cumulus is slow, buggy and complicated. Product & upgrade costs are to high, you have to pay support fees in order to be able to report bugs & are treated like stooopid if you have stability problems with the product. We've started with the OS9 Versions of Cumulus when it was still a good product years ago. But everything of Worgroup/Server which came later from OSX 10.1 up to 10.4 was less usable & all the integration of Web services & DB & SalesSystem was complicated and each little Upgrade (bug fix) costly... so long Cumulus.
Poor progamming, poor GUI, constant publisher crashing - Version: 6.5, 1/17/2006 02:29AM PST
(4 of 4 users found this comment useful)
zimbakin
Spent over 2 years and $10,000+, including 1 apple engineer, in an attempt to get this thing working. Local and parent company support were unhelpful to say the least. After 'techy' paid the additional, exorbitant developers fee, to gain major support access, problems were simply passed off as user error or ignored.
I canto believe this is software - Version: 6.5, 3/11/2005 10:48PM PST
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_talent
My boss has spent the last four years and almost $20,000 in trying to make Canto Cumulus work. The last $6,000 has been spent on the promise that if we upgrade to v.6 all our problems will be over. Ah salesmen! they sure promise a lot but we still cannot use this so called program to achieve anything except frustration.
I have personally used iView for many years, first when it was given away with Toast software many moons ago. It is now multi platform, able to do what Cumulus users can only dream of doing. Photos, Illustrator files, Photoshop files, font files, text files, you name it and iView can show it to you.
Crapulus does a fair job of photos but try anything else and you're in for a challenge. It took the smooth sales team three months before our Illustrator file thumbnails in cumulus look like they're made up of more than ten pixels. Until they rebuilt our server, our 4 license software allowed one person to open four catalogues and no one else. It was more like four catalogue software than four user software. If you created a collection, saved it and closed the window, you could never open it again as cumulus told you you had the wrong version of Cumulus! Shall I go on?
We were promised that Cumulus could communicate with another program like FileMaker to give us reports on who bought what, when, who produced what, who sold and how much, where the assets were. Ah to dream and wake up in a nightmare that is Canto Cumulus.
If you're considering buying this program please do yourself a favour and DO NOT! Save your sanity, your time and your money.
I have personally used iView for many years, first when it was given away with Toast software many moons ago. It is now multi platform, able to do what Cumulus users can only dream of doing. Photos, Illustrator files, Photoshop files, font files, text files, you name it and iView can show it to you.
Crapulus does a fair job of photos but try anything else and you're in for a challenge. It took the smooth sales team three months before our Illustrator file thumbnails in cumulus look like they're made up of more than ten pixels. Until they rebuilt our server, our 4 license software allowed one person to open four catalogues and no one else. It was more like four catalogue software than four user software. If you created a collection, saved it and closed the window, you could never open it again as cumulus told you you had the wrong version of Cumulus! Shall I go on?
We were promised that Cumulus could communicate with another program like FileMaker to give us reports on who bought what, when, who produced what, who sold and how much, where the assets were. Ah to dream and wake up in a nightmare that is Canto Cumulus.
If you're considering buying this program please do yourself a favour and DO NOT! Save your sanity, your time and your money.
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- RE: I canto believe this is software (1 replies)
Expensive for no apparent reason... - Version: 6.0.3, 3/8/2005 01:13AM PST
(3 of 3 users found this comment useful)
jhaefeli
We purchased Cumulus as the basis of converting our 70,000 image film library to digital.
Oops.
There's a few thousand dollars down the drain.
The users couldn't figure it out, the tech staff hated it.
Support costs bucks to speak to living people, which is especially aggrevating when one is usual calling about a bug in the program.
The interface looked like it barely made it into System 7. The OS X server side was just cobbled together.
Oops.
There's a few thousand dollars down the drain.
The users couldn't figure it out, the tech staff hated it.
Support costs bucks to speak to living people, which is especially aggrevating when one is usual calling about a bug in the program.
The interface looked like it barely made it into System 7. The OS X server side was just cobbled together.
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- Expensive for no apparent reason... (1 replies)
New features aren't really revolutionary but are pretty useful and time-saving (particularly transparency support and collection basket to batch edit files). Also nice improvements with the internet client which is (finally !) using web 2.0 technologies and is greatly integrated to the company Intranet.
My general opinion is that 7.5.1 is definitely a 'Grand Cru' that restored our confidence in Cumulus to manage our huge files repository. Great job guys!