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Media Connector for Bynder

Built-in
Built by CHILI publish
Third Party

See Connector Types

Solution vendor website

See Bynder's website

Installation

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The installation is done by enabling the Bynder connector on the environment.

See Installation Through Connector Hub

Bynder Configuration

Consult your Bynder documentation or Bynder System Admin to obtain the correct values for the fields.

CHILI GraFx Connector Configuration

From the overview of Environments, click on "Settings" on the right to your environment, where you want to install or configure the Connector.

My environments list, with a search box and Name, Type and Used storage columns

Then click the installed Connector to access the configuration.

The Connectors list for an environment, with the Bynder media connector row toggled off

Configuration

Your instance of the Connector needs to know which Bynder instance it should communicate with and how to authenticate.

Bynder connector Configuration tab, with the baseURL runtime option and Proxy settings allowed domain

baseURL

Your Bynder System Administrator will provide you with this information.

For example

https://[your-domain].bynder.com

Proxy settings

CHILI GraFx needs to know what domains are allowed to process

For example

*.bynder.com

Authentication

Bynder Authentication tab set to OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials, with Client ID, secret and token endpoint filled in

Select your type of authentication:

Server and Browser: OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials

  • Client ID and Client Secret: These are customer-specific credentials provided by the Bynder Admin.
  • Token Endpoint:

    https://[your-domain].bynder.com/v6/authentication/oauth2/token
    

  • Scope: Consult your Bynder Admin to determine the appropriate scope. asset:read and collection:read are minimum requirements.

Consult your Bynder System Admin for assistance in configuring these fields.

Using Assets from Your Bynder Dam

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Place Assets in Your Template

  • Select the Bynder Connector.

The GraFx Studio side toolbar with the Resources tooltip showing

The Resources panel, with Media highlighted among the Data source and Barcodes categories

Grid of Bynder assets with the connector picker open and Bynder ticked over GraFx Media

Image Variables

When using image variables, you will see the same grid of assets when selecting an image, except if you have set configuration options (see below).

The Media picker of Bynder assets opened from the Product image variable's Select image field

Metadata mapping

See Concept of metadata mapping for more details

Variable settings with arrows marking the connector tab and the Metadata mapping Manage button

Configuration Options

Browse options with Allow Browse on, and Collection Name and View as collections set to Set value

To filter the assets suggested to template users, you can use several methods.

Collection Name

When entered, only the assets housed in that collection will be shown.

View as collections

Enable collections or folder view for browsing. This voids the collection name configuration.