DCC5.X Overview

Owned by Brian Bak Laursen
Last updated: May 04, 2023
3 min read

Seamlessly connect your digital assets to your contentful platform. Digizuite Connector Contentful enables a native integration between Digizuite DAM and Contentful composable CMS.

Select your digital assets from within Contentful and use it any content model. All you need is installing the app within contentful and then configure which Digizuite CDN url to use for accelerated content.

The implementation is based on our public example which you can read about here: . It all follows contentful best practices.

Benefits

  • Access to approved and web-ready digital assets from within Contentful.

  • Strong search and filter capabilities to allow editors to find content faster.

  • Seeing and editing metadata directly in Contentful (based on roles of course).

  • Perform light-editing such as cropping and video trim directly from Contentful (Digizuite 5.7 feature).

  • Ease collaboration by enable participation in content workflows (such as receiving or giving tasks)

  • Benefit from collections either by creating personalized ones or accessing shared.

Contentful Marketplace

Find the Digizuite DAM app in the Contentful marketplace.

https://www.contentful.com/marketplace/app/digizuite-dam/

Integration Architecture

Digizuite has created a Web-plugin which use the App Toolkit provided from Contentful to communicate with the content in Contentful.

Digizuizte has an embedded 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.

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: .

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.

 

  1. Go to ‘Content Model’ and click on ‘Add content type’:

  2. Select the field type to be ‘JSON Object’

  3. Go to Appearance and make sure to select Digizuite DAM and then provide url for your mm and remember /embedded.

     

  4. Go to ‘Content’ and then create some content which then use your new content type. When you do that, you can see ‘Select asset from Digizuite’ which will open the UI from where you can search and find the assets.

 

The asset picker UI looks like this in MM 5.7.0.

And here is a short gif showing the selection.

Example webapp using Digizuite Images:

Go check the ‘ctf-hero-banner’ in the below example.

https://github.com/blaur/contentful-sample-webapp