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title: "Setting up Acquia DAM integration"
date: "2025-07-29T11:45:46+00:00"
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The setup process for Acquia DAM (Widen) integration involves the following tasks:

*   [Generating the API access token from](#generate-access-token) Acquia DAM (Widen)
*   [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 (Widen)
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Use the following steps to generate the API access token:

1.  Log in to the Acquia DAM (Widen) 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 (Widen)**.
4.  Click **Configure Acquia DAM (Widen)**.
5.  In the **Access token** field, enter the access token that you [generated and copied from Acquia DAM (Widen)](#generate-access-token).
6.  In the **Acquia DAM (Widen) domain** field, enter your Acquia DAM (Widen) domain.
7.  Click **Authenticate Site**.
    
    The Acquia DAM (Widen) 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 (Widen) image assets.
        
        Only selected image styles are available when displaying Acquia DAM (Widen) assets.
        
    3.  Click **Save configuration**.
        
3.  Go to Acquia DAM (Widen) to set up user permissions.