Daydream has announced a major upgrade to its FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager software, adding customisable metadata, new preview plug-in architecture and a dedicated JavaScript scripting engine.

“We've worked hard with this release to address flexibility and provide user configurable features with an extendible architecture that allows developers to add their own features and enhancements” said Ralph Windsor, Managing Director at Daydream.

“The new preview plug-in architecture and scripting engine has got us really excited. Users can assemble custom preview plug-ins for FocusOPEN in client-side technologies like Flash and JQuery as well as implement custom server-side functionality using the scripting engine. Developers can now leverage FocusOPEN's robust and powerful .NET application infrastructure, without having to modify the core code.” He concluded.

The team have also extended the system control available to system administrators. “Our aim is to ensure that much of the FocusOPEN system is configurable without engineering know-how and to transfer greater architectural control into the hands of system administrators.” Windsor explained.

“Our latest feature allows system administrators to add, edit, order and even select field types for metadata, via a simple control panel and without code-level amendment. These features empower support teams and significantly hasten system configuration, allowing our users to get up and running fast with a system that better reflects their unique business requirements.”

FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager is available as an open source download distributed under split AGPL and Commercial licenses.