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Digizuizte has an embedded ui (MM5.6 Unified DAM UI ) which posts messages when a user clicks on an asset. The web plugin the listens to those messages and forwards the asset urls to contentful for rendering.
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Do you need to automate?
Do you have automated use-cases which is not an editor manually selecting assets or cropping from our UI in contentful, then there is no reason to worry.
We have strong automation capabilities which can easily be extended to invoke external endpoints or even register your own automation components. You can see some examples here: DC 5.7 Integration Toolbox & Patterns .
But essentially, the automation engine is low- and no-code where you can define triggers, filters and actions and then simply notify yourself with an asset message when relevant. If certain assets change in the contentful channel (even down to specific metadata fields such as product, brand, category and much more), then you can receive those messages on any endpoint.
How it works
When you have installed the plugin, then you need to create your content type to use in the actual content.
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And here is a short gif showing the selection.
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Example webapp using Digizuite Images:
Go check the ‘ctf-hero-banner’ in the below example.