The CIP Configurator is a module of the Cumulus Web Server Console. Once you open it you see a list of CIP configuration files. These are cip-config.xml of different CIP instances. You can add existing cip-config.xml or edit existing ones
As Cumulus Portals and Cumulus Mobile App are Cumulus Web Solutions that are built on CIP, they retrieve their configuration data from the CIP Configurator. CIP can support multiple Cumulus Portals and Cumulus Mobile App instances. (For more information on how to set up multiple instances, see Configuring Multiple Instances.)
The most important information is the name of the CIP configuration an applications uses.
The following sections describe how CIP and the applications built on it are configured via the various tabs of the CIP Configurator.
Once a CIP configuration is saved, it will be employed next time a user logs into the corresponding CIP instance, e.g. Cumulus Portals; e.g. the defined filters are displayed in the chosen sequence and the user can apply them.
Permissions for Accessing/Downloading Files via CIP-based Applications
CIP based applications such as Portals, CADA, or the Mobile Client are by default prohibited from directly accessing or downloading assets stored in Cumulus.
However, certain use cases rely on direct access to the original files, e.g. if you want to make files accessible offline for the Mobile Client, or if CADA is employed to import files into Adobe applications such as InDesign. To enable direct access to files, you must grant the "Show Original Asset" permission in addition to the "Download Asset" permission to the affected users for all catalogs they have to use.
Because downloading files e.g. in Portals is always processed via Asset Actions – even with the "Copy Original Asset" option –, only the "Download Asset" permission is required.
However, for assets stored in Amazon AWS or Windows Azure, Portals supports downloading from the original cloud location. To use this feature, the user needs the "Show Original Asset" permission in addition to the "Download Asset" permission.