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Tridion Connector for Canto

The Tridion Connector for Canto provides access to media assets stored in Canto, such as images, videos, documents, and other resources. You can use the connector to build rich experiences on websites using media assets that are centrally stored in a DAM and can be shared across the whole organization.

Supported capabilities

The Connector for Canto provides the following key capabilities:

  • List folders and files
  • View asset metadata, including asset size and content type
  • Download asset files
  • Publishing Canto content from Content Manager

Example use cases

These capabilities make it possible to implement the following use cases (among others):
  • Navigate Canto assets from one single interface, Tridion Sites
  • Consume Canto assets in your Component and Pages managed in Tridion Sites

Architecture

The following diagram gives a high-level architecture of the connector when used with Tridion Sites: