External Content Library API
The External Content Library API is for customizing and extending the External Content Library (ECL) feature, enabling it to communicate with an external system and expose content from that system in Tridion Sites.
The External Content Library API can interact with Tridion Sites in the following ways:
- ECL Providers (legacy)
- A custom ECL Provider plugs into External Content Library to communicate with and retrieve content from external systems.
- Template Building Blocks (legacy)
- Template code, in the form of Template Building Blocks, interact with the API to use media stored in an external system in Tridion Sites-driven websites.
- Event Handlers
- The Event System of Tridion Sites interacts with the API to perform actions on the external system based on events occurring on the Tridion Sites Content Manager.
The API reference documentation, available as a Windows Help file (.chm), contains more detailed information about how to use the API. To download the reference documentation for this API, see: .