How to use Extension

The Digizuite Extension for Optimizely Experimentation consists of two elements. Not both elements are needed but together they can bring a better experience.

The two elements

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Remember that we need to have a CDN to not hit the DAM when fetching assets.

Prerequisites

Following must be in place:

  • CDN:
    This functionality should be used in conjunction with a CDN since we are talking about potential high consumption from the website.

  • Public Destination for assets to be streamed from (out of box 10016 is used but you must add a profile)

  • (have in mind that for crop to work then it requires 5.6.0 but rest of the functionality will still be valid)

Full Demo

A simple example of how to enable Digizuite Images using the Digizuite Browser Extension to c/p the asset id (could also do manually)

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Adding the Browser Extension (optional)

You can follow the guide here (https://digizuite.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DD/pages/3276046348/DCE+5.5+-+Installation ).

Adding the Public destination

Ensure that you either use an existing profile which publishes to a public destination or then create on for this purpose:

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Then ensure that it is added under 'Profiles and destinations' for the Config Manager:

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Optimizely Experimentation Extension (optional)

Using Digizuite assets is based on asset ids. This can be either found by using the Chrome Extension as described above to paste in the id or simply manually entering it.

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Using the Chrome Extension

Simply click on the asset to make it update as shown in the above videos (otherwise, one can configure it to copy and paste the ID where you then manually copy it in the asset id input)

Manually entering the ID

From 5.6.0 it is also possible to perform simple focal point cropping by changing these parameters (this is subject to change in 2023):

Extension Fields

Following fields have been added

Field Name

Description

Mandatory

Field Name

Description

Mandatory

Digizuite Asset Id

The asset id from chrome extension of manually entered

Yes

Digizuite DAM CDN URL

The CDN url from where images must be fetched.

Yes

Digizuite Media Format ID

Media Format ID of the asset which is now defaulted to source (2)

Yes

Digizuite Destination ID

The public destination to use for getting the assets. Right now defaulted to 10016.

Yes

Digizuite Image Width

Width of the actual image. This is not CSS and it will actually resize the image for you with that width to allow better load time.

No

Digizuite Image Height

Height of the actual image. This is not CSS and it will actually resize the image for you with that height to allow better load time.

No

Crop Gravity

Allowing you to do focal point cropping based on gravity. Choose different values which chooses a focal point.

No

Crop Width

Width of the crop (only relevant if gravity is set).

No

Crop Height

Height of the crop (only relevant if gravity is set).

No

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