Walkthrough: Enabling the DAM connector in a local development environment

Prerequisites

Before you enable the DAM connector, you must have:

• A user in Sitecore Content Hub that has the relevant user rights
• An OAuth client for the connector.

Configure a DAM connection

To configure a DAM connection and add your CSP:

1. Clone the source control repository linked to your SitecoreAI environment.

2. In the SitecoreAI repository folder, create the following subfolder:

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   {Project Repo Name}/src/platform/App_Data/Xdts

3. Open the Xdts subfolder, create a file named Web.config.xdt, and open it for editing. Add the following code, then add your CSP in the value attribute value:

   xml

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <configuration xmlns:xdt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform">
       <location path="sitecore">
           <system.webServer>
               <httpProtocol>
                   <customHeaders>
                       <add xdt:Transform="SetAttributes" xdt:Locator="Match(name)" name="Content-Security-Policy" value="{Add your content security policy here}"/>
                   </customHeaders>
               </httpProtocol>
           </system.webServer>
       </location>
   </configuration>

   Ensure that the Content-Security-Policy tag contains the URL of the Content Hub instance (for example, content-hub-url.stylelabs.com), other delivery hostnames (for example, content-hub-url-delivery.stylelabs.cloud), and generated public links (for example, content-hub-url.stylelabs.com:8686).

   Note

   In Content Hub, you can configure different delivery hostnames for public links by using the AssetExtensionDataConfigurationSetting setting.

   If you have configured different hostnames, you must add all the hostnames as sources to the Content-Security-Policy parameter, in the img-src, child-src, and connect-src properties.

4. Save the file.

5. Apply the XDT transforms to your base image. For more information, see applying configuration transforms.

Configure and enable the DAM connector

The DAM connector adds the Insert from Sitecore DAM item to the Rich Text Default profile for the Rich Text Editor. To enable the insert function, you must configure a connection to Sitecore DAM.

To configure and enable the DAM connector:

1. In Github, clone the project repository you created in Sitecore Cloud Portal,

2. In your SitecoreAI repository folder, open the .env file and add the following variables:

   Variable	Value	Description
   Sitecore_DAM_ContentHub	ClientId={client_id};ClientSecret={client_secret};UserName={username};Password={password};URI={uri};Example: Sitecore_DAM_ContentHub=ClientId=App;ClientSecret=a51a8fb6-4f57-1234;UserName=john;Password=hunter2;URI=https://example.com/;	The Client ID and Client Secret of the connector's OAuth client.The username and password of the user you created in Content Hub.uri of your Content Hub instance.
   Sitecore_DAM_SearchPage	Sitecore Content Hub search page URIExample: Sitecore_DAM_SearchPage=https://sitecore-contenthub-dam-uri/en-us/sitecore-dam-connect/approved-assets	The URI for the page that opens the DAM in an IFrame.
   Sitecore_DAM_ExternalRedirectKey	Sitecore
   SITECORE_DAM_ENABLED	yes	By default, the DAM connector is disabled. To enable the connector, set this value to yes.

3. Open the docker-compose.override.yml file, and add the following key-value pairs to the services > cm > environment attribute:

   Sitecore_ConnectionStrings_DAM_dot_ContentHub: ${Sitecore_DAM_ContentHub}
   Sitecore_ConnectionStrings_DAM_dot_SearchPage: ${Sitecore_DAM_SearchPage}
   Sitecore_ConnectionStrings_DAM_dot_ExternalRedirectKey: ${Sitecore_DAM_ExternalRedirectKey}
   SITECORE_AppSettings_damEnabled__define: ${SITECORE_DAM_ENABLED}
   

4. In the repository folder, open a Windows console and run the following command:

   shell

   docker compose up -d

   Note

   For information on setting up your local environment see Set up your full-stack SitecoreAI local development environment

Configure CORS for DAM

To enable the Content Hub DAM iframe to successfully display in the Content Editor and the Page builder media item picker, you need to add the Pages and environment host name URLs to Content Hub CORS configuration.

To configure CORS for DAM:

1. On the Sitecore DAM main menu, click Manage, then Settings.

2. On the Settings page, click PortalConfiguration, then click CORSConfiguration.

3. In URL field, enter the URL of the Page builder: https://pages.sitecorecloud.io/, then click Add.

4. In URL field, enter https://, then the environment host name of your local environment, for example: https://xmcloudcm.localhost/, then click Add.

   Note

   XM Cloud is now SitecoreAI Some code examples, images, and UI labels may still use XM Cloud while engineering assets are being updated.

   You can now display DAM assets in the Content Editor.