This is the media/content homepage. The words media and/or content usually means some sort of digital file or electronic document of some kind. This could be things like Adobe PDF documents, word processing files, text files, spreadsheets, graphics, drawings, photos, videos, animations, audio, sound files, multimedia presentations, flyers, publications, and any other type of file or document. Basically, if they (the files or documents) play a part of your business or part of the story you are trying to tell, this is where you record and/or document them.

By using this section, files may be referenced and/or archived as needed. Think of this section as a giant filing system or document library. You may catalog, reference, upload, link to, or cross-tie to any existing piece of data in the system.

The page is divided into two main sections. The top part deals with filters and search options. The bottom part deals with search results or files that have been added to the system. If for some reason, you can't see the search criteria, simply click the show/hide search criteria button to view the filters.

If you have the correct permissions, there will be an add new media/content button at the top of the page. This will allow you to choose what kind of media you want to reference and/or physically upload. More help is available from that page. In a nutshell, we allow files to be stored on your local hard drive, network drives, remote cloud storage servers, or physically on Adilas content servers. This give you great flexibility as to where your media/content files exist and/or reside.

If more search options are wanted and/or needed, make sure and go over to the advanced media/content search page. There is a link to that page listed on the top of the page. The advanced search and report pages have a number of other filters and report settings that may be used to get your results.

On a fun history note, this media/content project was fully developed by Adilas interns (college students) as part of their training process. Eventually two out of the four original interns went on to finish the project. There names are Chris Dunsey and Shawn Curtis. Both interns were hired officially by Adilas in October 2013. Most of the existing content pieces were finalized by Shawn Curtis with Chris Dunsey helping out with backend API (application programming interface) pieces that run over web servers between the different data and content servers. As a funny joke, the content server was affectionately named the "pig" server due to the size of files that we anticipated being pushed over to it for storage. So, if you ever here an Adilas rep, trainer, or consultant talk about the "pig server", you will know where the reference comes from. Enjoy!

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