Integrating Digital Asset Management with Sitecore Connect Hub: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough
The Sitecore Connect for Content Hub (SCCH) connector enables seamless integration between Sitecore Content Hub and the Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) through the Content Marketing Platform (CMP) module and the Digital Asset Management (DAM) module.
Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems are crucial for the organization, storage, and retrieval of digital assets. When combined with robust platforms like Sitecore Connect Hub, they can greatly improve your content management capabilities. This blog will guide you through the steps of integrating a DAM system with Sitecore Connect Hub, ensuring a smooth and efficient workflow.
With the Sitecore Connect for Content Hub (SCCH) connector, you can browse, search, and insert digital assets directly into Sitecore’s Content and Experience editing environment.
Prerequisites
- Install Sitecore 10.4 from here
- Download Sitecore Connect™ for Content Hub SIF Package and Sitecore Connect™ for Content Hub WDP Package from here
- Unzip the SCCH Sitecore Installation Framework package into the designated folder.
- Execute the following command in PowerShell.
- In ScchWdpPackage give a path of Sitecore.Connector.ContentHub.WDP.5.2.96-r00458.5768.scwdp.zip which you have downloaded previously.
- To enable DAM on your Content Management server, open the web.config file and modify the configuration as shown below:
- <add key="damEnabled:define" value="yes"/>
- In Content Hub, go to manage and then click on OAuth clients.
- Enter all details and click on the Save button.
Configure CORS for DAM
- Login into the Content hub, go to Manage and then click on Settings.
- Go to Navigate to Content Hub, then go to Manage, and click on Users.
- Click Add User and enter Username.
- Within the M.Builtin.SitecoreDAM.Everyone user group, create a new rule for the M.Asset entity, and choose both Read and ReadPublicLinks permissions.
- To assign the user to the group, navigate to the User groups tab, check the box next to the group name, and then click Select.
- To access the sync blog entity, you need to have read permissions for M.Content.
- Accessing the sync product entity requires read permissions for M.PCM.Product.
- Then click Save.
Add Connection String
- Add below connection strings in ConnectionStrings.config
- Ensure that the URL of the Content Hub instance (e.g., content-hub-url.stylelabs.com), other delivery hostnames (e.g., content-hub-url-delivery.stylelabs.cloud), and generated public links (e.g., content-hub-url.stylelabs.com:8686) are included as sources in the Content-Security-Policy tag. Open the web.config and update below lines:
Set-up Redirection Settings for DAM
- In Content Hub, go to manage and navigate to the Settings page, select Portal Configuration, and then choose Authentication.
- Under the Providers node, adjust the authentication_mode value to Passive for all SSP providers and save the changes.
Test the DAM Connectivity
- Go to your Sitecore instance and in any image field, Browse Sitecore DAM will be visible
- Click on the "Browse Sitecore DAM" button and it will display all media items from the Content hub.
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