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Media Manager Connector - default sorting

There is a hotfix for this issue for MMC 1.3 that you can request from CS. The fix for this issue is already included in latest Media Manager Connector 1.4 release.
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Bulk import of assets in Media manager

There is a Media Manager Web Service available with which you can create logic to bulk upload items. The CHM file in the page has information on how to upload items to Media Manager. Pay special ...
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Does Tridion connector for Media Manager support thumbnails?

Actually, this is a cache issue. Tridion by default stores all thumbnails in separate folder. We contacted SDL support for same issue and this is what we got as a response: Therefore if the ...
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Media Manager Connector - default sorting

One would indeed expect the ordering to be (alphabetical) similar to that of the CME, but as @Marko mentions, the order is coming from the external system. That is basically how ECL works. In an ECL ...
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Is it mandatory to use the STUB schema, installed by DXA Media Manager Module?

No you don't have to use the Media Manager ECL Stub Schema provided as part of the DXA Media Manager Module, as long as you ensure that the Schema title is exactly the same (it's the default title for ...
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How to manipulate with SDL Media Manager items from core service?

I have updated the following article. It now contains an extract of the App.config file containing the bindings and endpoint information. Configure your App.config file with the URL to your Secure ...
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SDL Media Manager Youtube Distribution is not Appearing in Tridion Interface

You can only see HTML5 distributions in the SDL Media Manager mountpoint. To publish from Media Manager to YouTube there is a specific YouTube channel where you need to add the assets too. So if ...
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When are MediaManager Distributions Live?

It is live when it is created in MM. Publish/Unpublish has no effect on the distribution in Media Manager.
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How to create Portrait View of Video in Media Manager

Media Manager currently only supports the management of videos in standard aspect ratios; 4:3 and 16:9. It will convert uploaded files to the nearest match (see docs), which is why you are seeing your ...
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Does Tridion connector for Media Manager support thumbnails?

It supports thumbnails, so it is probably a configuration issue. I would contact SDL support to find out if the service end is configured correctly, as there isn't any settings on the Tridion side for ...
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How to create Portrait View of Video in Media Manager

You can't change the aspect ratio once you've uploaded it into Media Manager. The outlet doesn't offer you an option to change aspect ratio, either. It is possible using some CSS to "fake" an aspect ...
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Media Manager Captions and BluePrinting

The Distribution URL supports a query string parameter, "sl", which specifies what subtitles to show (presumably if available). See the Online Documentation This value could be held in Publication ...
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Failed initializing the External Content Library with id mm

If it was running before and not anymore now, and you didn't change anything in the configuration just before it stopped working, then the configuration is fine. My guess is something happened to the ...
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Is it possible to upload SVG files to Media Manager?

No.. only jpg/gif/png/tif/bmp, as per documentation link below https://docs.sdl.com/LiveContent/content/en-US/SDLMediaManager212-v5/GUID-CF1C8C0E-41BF-4A8C-B185-3196DDA2B06C
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Media Manager | External Metadata Field Values get in DD4T

This external metadata is not added by default. You have the following options you can define a normal metadata field in your External content stub schema, and add some event system logic to copy the ...
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How to access the preview url of Image (Created on SDL Media Manager) from Event System Code?

ECL will only give you the first distribution link. It is an internal implementation detail of MM that this link is resolved into the cdn link - something we do not want to expose through ECL (and the ...
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How to resolve CDN url of media manager image from application implemented using SDL Tridion

If for whatever reason you want to "resolve" a Media Manager distribution URL, i.e. you want to get the redirected URL, you can achieve this with the following code snippet: var distributionUrl = "...
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How to resolve CDN url of media manager image from application implemented using SDL Tridion

When in the CM, you can use the ECL API to check the IContentLibraryMultimediaItem.DisplayTypeId, this will tell you if the item is actually an image or a video (or audio, or download item). For DXA ...
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Facing error while connecting MediaManager service

Neetesh, please try connecting to SDL Media Manager using the Helper class provided here: http://philipmedcraft.blogspot.com.br/2017/03/connecting-to-sdl-media-manager.html var mediaManagerClient = ...
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Identify all Media Manager images and videos based on metadata Field crieria

Please refer to this blog post. The last section, "Updating the relationships in SDL Web (Tridion)", contains information on using the ECL service. This should help you.
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How do we resolve ExternalContentLibraryStubSchema-mm schema problem in DXA MediaManager Module?

My goal was to move the Connector installation to the 100 Master level. I tried deleting stubs and schema , editing the ExternalContentLibrary.xml stubs folder to point at 100 level to run the ...
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Is it possible to upload SVG files to Media Manager?

Replying to your edited question. SVGs are not supported by Media Manger, but that doesn't stop you from using them on your website. You should be able to add them as multimedia Components into ...
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Media Manager configuration issue with Web 8.5

Please check whether ECL and Media Manager service urls are entered using https in the TridionSTS.xml. Use https rather than http when you configure the URLs.
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Dynamic image renditions from "dist" URL

Yes, that is correct. This is because https://xyz.dist.sdlmedia.com is URL of Distribution. One distribution is collection of one or more images (or any other media) grouped in programs and assets. ...
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Not able to use ECL service

I think it is related to how you instantiate and use the SessionAwareEclServiceClient, try doing the following: // services endpoints and binding // (I've copied them from an old example, make sure ...
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Media Manager Connector - default sorting

Not that I am aware of. CME ordering is the same as in Media Manager since its just using connector to retrieve data and upload images. Just for curiosity sake, is there any special reason why you ...
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SDL Media Manager

No, currently Media Manager only supports Folders and Subfolders, as you've already seen in the documentation. For customers that have needed additional granularity I have used multiple Clients, ...
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Does Tridion Connector 1.3 for Media Manager work with a proxy server?

Locate the ServiceEndPoint element for your mountpoint in ExternalContentLibrary.xml, then add the following attributes: proxyUrl proxyUserName proxyPassword The last two being optional.
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How to resolve CDN url of media manager image from application implemented using SDL Tridion

I think that using the distribution URL in an img src attibute will work just fine, no need to "resolve" the url. You can also get the JSON output of the distribution if you want to parse it and get ...
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Is it possible to upload SVG files to Media Manager?

Media Manager can store files , in addition to images and videos. It might be tempting to try and consider SVG a "file" rather than an image. Unfortunately, even as a file, SVG is not supported ...
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