By definition, working with projects and workflows in creative, publishing, and prepress industries means working with files. No system would be complete without tightly managing these document files as part of the process. From the beginning, Virtual Ticket has been engineered with this in mind. The result is a robust system that integrates your file documents directly into your projects and workflows.
Virtual Ticket's File Management capabilities can be enhanced with the optional Digital Storage Manager module. The two products combined provide the industry's most powerful production file management system. Powerful search capabilities and the ability to share file views with people outside production, like account managers, sales people, and even customers provide organizations with a turnkey, easy to use, and easy to manage solution.
Virtual Ticket provides you with the ability to integrate document files directly into your workflow. File Collector fields added to forms and tickets let you simply drop your files onto your job ticket forms. With the Digital Storage Manager optional module, files can be associated with job ticket automatically with no user interaction.
Metadata associated with files is stored in the database, providing you with a fast way to examine and evaluate the document from within Virtual Ticket, regardless of the actual location of the file in the file system.
Metadata enrichment is a no-cost proposition in Virtual Ticket. Automatic metadata inheritance means that important information defined in one place is automatically propagated to associated files and folders. A simple association of a file or folder with a job ticket then allows users to use any of the job or customer metadata to find the files.
Virtual Ticket's powerful digital asset management capabilities include traditional image cataloging with innovative features that enable you to quickly build catalogs of images for specific customers, brands, product shots, or corporate artwork.
Virtual Ticket's advanced search capabilities allow you to find any file ever added to the system. Searching can be conducted not just by the traditional file name, but by any metadata associated with the file or any information contained in forms associated with the file. Finding files by job information, extracted text, customer information, and more provide you more ways to quickly locate the documents you need.
Full text searches let you find document files by searching on the very text contained in the documents. Virtual Ticket captures the text content of common file types including QuarkXPress, Adobe Illustrator, PDF, and Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. The text content is stored as metadata and can be used to find document files regardless of whether they are online, offline, or residing in a secure storage location.
Virtual Ticket automatically captures extensive visual metadata for most popular file types, including Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, and Microsoft PowerPoint. This information is stored in the database, allowing users to view full-sized multi-page previews and extensive document metadata, right down to the fonts being used, box size, and text content, regardless of whether the file is stored online, near-line or offline. Even provide people like account managers, sales, and others outside your workgroup with the ability to see document files straight from Virtual Ticket.
With the Digital Storage Manager option, you can combine the robust workflow management features of Virtual Ticket with the best production digital asset management features of Digital Storage Manager. Advanced Digital Storage Manager functionality is integrated completely within Virtual Ticket, providing you with world-class automation and production data lifecycle management directly within the tool you are familiar with: