Note: The API reference documentation, available as a Windows Help file, contains more detailed information about how to use the API to develop Providers, Templating Building Blocks and Event Handlers. is an example of a product that uses External Content Library to connect Content Manager to an external system.
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Providers
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You need to develop a provider that plugs into the External Content Library to communicate with and retrieve multimedia in external systems.
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Template Building Blocks
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You need to develop Template Building Blocks that interact with the External Content Library API to use media stored in an external system in SDL Web-driven Web sites.
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Event Handlers
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You can interact with the External Content Library API through the Event System of SDL Web to perform actions on the external system based on events occurring on the Content Manager.