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title: "Setting up Acquia DAM integration"
date: "2025-07-29T11:45:46+00:00"
summary: "Connect Acquia Source to Acquia DAM: Step-by-step guide for configuration, synchronization, and user permissions setup."
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The setup process for Acquia DAM integration involves the following tasks:

*   [Generating the API access token from](#generate-access-token) [Acquia DAM](#generate-access-token)
*   [Authenticating a site in](#authenticate-site) [Acquia Source](#authenticate-site)
*   [Configuring the metadata and image styles settings](#configure-metadata-imagestyles)

Generating the API access token from Acquia DAM
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Use the following steps to generate the API access token:

1.  Log in to the Acquia DAM portal as an administrator.
2.  From the global dropdown, select **Admin**.
3.  Click **Global settings** > **API setup**.
4.  On the API Setup page, click **New integration**.
5.  In the **Integration Name** field, enter a friendly name for the integration.
    
    For example, Acquia Source.
    
6.  In the **Description** field, enter a brief description for the integration.
    
    For example, This token is created for the example.com site.
    
7.  Click **Register**.
    
    The API Setup page displays a row for the integration.
    
8.  In the row for the integration, click **Generate User Access Token**.
9.  In the Generate User Access Token dialog box, do the following:
    1.  In the **Search users** field, type your email address or username and select **Filter Dropdown Users**.
    2.  Find your email address or username in the next dropdown.
    3.  Click **Generate Token**.
        
        The dialog box displays the access token.
        
    4.  Copy the access token and save it to a secure location.
    5.  Click **Close**.

Authenticating a site in Acquia Source
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Use the following steps to authenticate a site in Acquia Source:

1.  Log in to Acquia Source.
2.  [Access your site](/node/69836#access-a-site).
    
3.  In the left sidebar, click **Configuration** > **Media** \> **Acquia DAM**.
4.  Click **Configure Acquia DAM**.
5.  In the **Access token** field, enter the access token that you [generated and copied from Acquia DAM](#generate-access-token).
6.  In the **Acquia DAM domain** field, enter your Acquia DAM domain.
7.  Click **Authenticate Site**.
    
    The Acquia DAM configuration page displays a status message to confirm the authentication.
    

Configuring the metadata and image styles settings
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1.  To configure metadata settings and narrow down the scope of metadata fields:
    1.  Select the **Metadata** tab.
        
        Each piece of asset metadata can be assigned to a custom field of media items in Drupal.
        
    2.  Select the checkboxes for the fields to offer for mapping on media type configuration pages.
        
    3.  Click **Save configuration**.
        
2.  To configure image styles settings:
    
    1.  Select the **Image Styles** tab.
    2.  Select the checkboxes for the Drupal image styles that are allowed to render Acquia DAM image assets.
        
        Only selected image styles are available when displaying Acquia DAM assets.
        
    3.  Click **Save configuration**.
        
3.  Go to Acquia DAM to set up user permissions.