Create processing tasks

A processing task is a step within a processing flow. You can configure the output of a processing task to be an entity rendition. To do this, enable the Store output feature for a task and create rendition links.

Create a processing task

To create a processing task:

1. On the menu bar, click Manage .

2. On the Manage page, click Media processing.

3. On the Media processing page, select a processing set, then click the flow where you want to add a task.

4. On the visual canvas, on the node of the flow you want to add the task to, click

5. In the the right-hand pane, select a task type.

6. On the Parameters tab, fill out the task parameters.

   Store file

   Convert image

   Convert video

   Convert document

   Convert HTML

   Create storyboard

   Extract clipping paths

   Extract metadata

   Extract Vision data

   Extract video indexer data

   Run external web task

   Parameter	Description	Mandatory
   Name	Name of the task.	No
   Content type	ContentType/MimeType for the output file.	No
   Content disposition	Defines whether the file is an attachment or provided inline.	Yes

7. Click Save task.

Create rendition links

You can enable the store output feature to create rendition links for a task. In order for the rendition to appear in the Entity renditions component, you must configure that component for the corresponding entity definition (such as M.Asset).

To create rendition links:

1. With the task selected on the visual canvas, click the Outputs tab.

2. Turn on the Store output switch. This enables the download and display of assets through a rendition link.

3. In the Output section, fill out the parameters.

   Parameter	Description	Mandatory
   Output type	Format of the output. Only available for processing tasks of type Run external web task.	Yes
   Output name	Name of the output.	No
   Property	Extract clipping path tasks only have this parameter.	Yes
   Alternative files	Makes the renditions sticky, meaning they are neither regenerated regenerated upon refresh, nor created upon upload of an alternative file or thumbnail.	No

   Note

   For Extract video indexer data tasks, you need to configure two outputs. One for the metadata and one for the storyboard.

4. Click New link to create a rendition link, then fill out the new link parameters.

   Parameter	Description	Mandatory
   Name	Name of the new link.	Yes
   Label	Label of the new link, shown in the user interface.	Yes
   Intent	Intended use for the rendition link.	Yes
   Link expiration	Period of time before the link expires.	Yes
   Required permissions	Permissions required to see and access the link.	No
   Gateway enable watermark	Turns on gateway link watermarking.	No
   Enable watermark	Turns on delivery link watermarking.	No
   Watermarks	A list of any watermarks to be applied to the rendition link.	No
   Omit watermark permission	Omits watermarking on the link	No
   Intended area of use	The areas in which the link can be used.	No
   Required gateway permissions	Permissions a user needs to access the rendition through a gateway link.	No
   Description	Link description.	No
   Processing configuration	Used to store the conversion settings of a custom download. Do not manually update this field.	No
   Filename	Name of the rendition file. You can write a combination of plain text and metadata variables. Each variable, which is written inside curly braces, must reference the name of either a single-line string property or an option list property that does not have multiple values, such as the original filename or the asset title. For example, {filename}-{title} results in a file called image.jpg-palagio. However, because an asset's Description is a multi-line value, using {filename}-{description} causes the second variable to be treated as literal text, resulting in a file called image.jpg-{description}.	No
   Asset media	Asset media type of the new rendition link.	No

5. Click Save.