Adding custom integrations to the Digital editor of Content Station Aurora

Info: This feature requires Content Station 11.6 or higher.

Custom integrations can be added to the Digital editor to make functionality such as the following possible:

• Custom previews
• Dialogs showing Web CMS metadata and/or related content
• A menu bar containing options that trigger specific functionality
• Getting the article content in JSON format

For a full overview of what can be done, see the Software Development Kit (SDK).

Creating customizations

To help you create your own customizations, an SDK and sample files are available in the following location:

Content Station folder > sdk

The following files are relevant to creating customizations:

• digital-editor-sdk.md. The SDK describing the available options that can be implemented in the Digital editor.

• samples. Folder containing some example plug-ins. See the SDK for more information.

The process

Customizations are added as a plug-in. The process of creating and adding them is as follows:

Step 1. Create a javascript file by following the instructions in the SDK and/or by basing it on the sample file.

Step 2. Place the file in the following folder (optionally in a subfolder of this folder):

Content Station folder > sdk

Step 3. Enable the plug-in in Content Station by opening the contentstation > config.js file and adding a reference to the plug-in in the plugins section. For details about how to configure this, see the plugins.md file in the sdk folder.

Step 4. Save the file.

Step 5. Log in to Content Station — or refresh the page when you are already logged in — and test the working of your customization.