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
• Custom side panels (requires Content Station 11.53 or higher)
• 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). It can be found in the following location:

Content Station folder > 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.

Document history

• 11 December 2019: Updated the list in the intro with a reference to custom side panels.