Is fluxiom just for group asset sharing or is there also a permissioning schema for client access?

Thanks

Thanks

Hi,

I found your product today “fluxiom” and at first I was excited, it seemed like exactly what our organization was looking for. I signed up to the Pro package. At first it started out good, the branding was nice I could make it look like our corporate site. And then it just went downhill.

I added an asset. Then I logged out and logged in as a test user I had made and attempted to delete that asset. Asset deleted! Uh, what? How could I just delete another users asset? Surely there must be some security preventing people from deleting other peoples stuff. I searched high and low, through google and your blog. Nope nothing.

At this point I realised you had no online help pages. Just a blog. Hmm $133 a month and no help files? Something is wrong here.

Then I dig deeper. I want to use fluxiom to be able to give my customers access to some of our assets, mainly press photographs etc. So I look if I can set up groups, and set only certain assets viewable by certain groups. Can I do this? No? Uh… something is very wrong here. Basic security is not present.

Lastly I try to tag an asset. I spend 10 minutes trying to find how I do it. Only on reading someone ELSE’S website do I find I have to click the arrow in the top right corner to change to “administrative mode” to add tags. Very unintuitive.

But then Ah Ha! I think, “Administrative mode”, that’s where all the features have been hiding. So I go back to the user and group management page, thinking I would be able to click the arrow and access all the features above, like real security permissions. ….But no, the arrow is gone.

And so goodbye fluxiom. I don’t really know what point you have, you’re a neat little gadget, certainly not worth the monthly fee, you promise a lot, but offer little. I am sorry I wasted 3 hours on you this afternoon.

Sure it’s not for everyone, but having a central store for digital assets is a massive benefit for design agencies and the like.

A couple of places I have worked would have loved something like this but were unable to set up the infrastructure necessary to allow “client access” to the asset library.

Looks like a reasonable solution to me and didn’t strike me as particularly expensive either.