Zapier allows you to quickly connect popular, cloud-based apps to Acquia DAM to automate file uploads. You can create a zap to connect the two apps, allowing you to complete an action in one app - a trigger app - and a resulting action occurs in another app -- an action app. Apps like Box, Dropbox, Instagram, Gmail, Evernote, and Google Drive, as well as many others, are trigger apps. The DAM is an action app that triggers a file to be automatically uploaded.

Learn how to set up a zap here and explore the many apps that can be connected to Zapier.

Use of Zapier automates the upload of files from other apps into your DAM site to ensure valuable files are centralized. Once project files are approved in Basecamp, for example, set up a zap to upload to a specific upload profile in the DAM. Capture user-generated content through Instagram and send it directly to the DAM to repurpose.

Depending on your account level in Zapier, the file upload process occurs in intervals of 15 minutes or less.

Refer to Zapier’s common help topics with questions about using Zapier.

Upload files

To send files to the DAM from another app, create a zap between a trigger app and the DAM. After it's created, you can quickly upload from that app to the DAM. Create as many zaps as allowed by the Zapier plan you choose.

For example, you can create a zap between Dropbox and the DAM. When a new file is added to your Dropbox folder, the file will be automatically uploaded to the DAM.

Set up a DAM asset

When creating a zap, you'll set up a DAM asset. To do that, select an upload profile from the list of those available in the DAM, choose a filename, and choose the file to upload. The filename is a list of folders in the trigger apps. Once the filename is chosen, choose from the list of available files in the trigger app.

Permissions

Apps are connected from Zapier to the DAM when a zap is created. If you have permission to upload in the DAM, upload profiles display for you to as the target for the zap.

Only a single upload profile can be selected as a target for each zap; however, you can set up as many zaps as you need to support workflows and ensure files are placed in the appropriate upload profiles and tagged with the appropriate metadata.

An example workflow in Basecamp is, after approval, files can be automatically uploaded to the DAM with the default metadata that has been set for the upload profile. Whatever metadata is included in the profile will be used to automatically tag the file when it’s uploaded to the DAM.