A better content management for DAZ Studio

mbisiani

Hi,
I came up with some issues with managing content:

*) inconsistent categorization of products
*) too liberal naming convention of folders and products
*) not quite explanatory thumbnails
*) no easy tracking of products features like morphs list and figure compatibility

I know that I can use tags and manually add and modify products metadata.
Yet, these approaches seem to me more of a burden. Taggng is IMHO more useful on a project-by-project basis, but it's not a viable strategy for long-term maintenance. Directly managing metadata is problematic too, as it is a time-consuming activity and it is too error-prone.
Install Manager is useful but I think it still doesn't resolve all the issues

I'd like to have a dedicated pane in Studio with dedicated tools for browsing and managing content in an easy and consistent way. DAZ content is a library of items just like movies collection, emails and the like, so it seems viable to use a "standard" approach to cataloging and browsing it.
For example, it'd be useful to be allowed to search like: "Give me a skirt, long, V4 compatible, with Utopian Body Morph, don't show me materials, exclude male products".