Syndicate Images(name) from MDM

Hi All,
as syndication of image file is not possible from MDM, and we can only syndicate image names from MDM. Say we have a record in MDM and an image(ABC.jpg) attached to it. Now we edit that record and add another image(DEF.jpg) to it. Now if we want to syndicate the record only with the new image(DEF.jpg), MDM doesn't allow this feature as an out of box functionality.
Is it possible to achieve this using JAVA API's and how, or is there any workaround available for this, on which some one has worked.
Regards
Manish

Hi,
Try this.
Create a time stamp field in the repository and specify Image field as selected field property for time stamp. So this field will hold time when image is changed for the record. Now in syndicator use this time stamp field and specify filter to select all the records which have image changed after last syndicatin date (you need to know last syndication date in this case, which is easy) for record selection . In this way you can acheive your requirement. But you may face problem if Image Field is multivalued. Because in that case it will syndicate names of all the images, and not only new images names.
Regards,
SHiv

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