The "Integration API" is an extra paid option that allows you to use the Twixl Platform Admin API to push content from external CMS systems.
Twixl offers the ability to integrate with different solutions for automated production flows and so to push content to the Twixl Platform and into your app.
The “Integration API” option allows you to integrate with a number of solutions that we support out of the box, but using that same API, basically any type of CMS could be setup to push content to the Twixl Platform. Some custom development or help from your local integrator may be required to achieve this.
The following solutions have built-in support for integration with Twixl Platform:
Setup
To integrate with an external solution, navigate to "Manage API Keys" in the User menu in the top right corner. There, you will be able to create an API Key for your app that will have to be used in the external solution.
1. Canvasflow
Login to your CanvasFlow account on https://canvasflow.io. Navigate to Settings, then select 'Publish Channels'.
As soon as you select Twixl Publisher from the list of channels, you'll get a panel where you need to enter the required information:
- Name of the app
- App Key
- Admin API Key
- Publish option: decide whether you are just going to upload content that can be published later, or whether you want to upload the content and make it available in the app immediately.
1.1. Video with instructions
2. WoodWing Inception
- Login to your Woodwing Inception account
- Go to the Publish Channels
- Add a new custom publish channel by clicking the Add Channel button under custom channels
- As the endpoint url, enter: https://platform.twixlmedia.com/api/2/[app_key]/inception-channel
- Enter a name and target name
- Next time you publish a story from Inception, you now have the option to send it to the Twixl Platform
- After publishing the story, the story will show up in the Unassigned Content Items
2.1. Automatic Assignment
To automatically add a content item to a specific collection, you can add that information to the publish channel URL:
- Find the numeric id of the collection in which you want the story to appear
- Change the publish channel URL to: https://platform.twixlmedia.com/api/2/[app_key]/inception-channel?collection_id=[ID]
2.2. WoodWing Enterprise
In order te be able to send content from WoodWing Enterprise, you'll need to have a partner that provides a connector from Content Station to Twixl Publisher.
3. vjoon K4
You can use vjoon K4® to connect to Twixl Publisher to produce digital editions of your publications for tablet and other mobile devices. This process makes use of standard vjoon K4 functions and can be highly automated, allowing you to manage layouts, articles and meta data within the system, have multiple users work at content parallel, and make use of Adobe InDesign Server to render files in the background.
Follow the link below to download a PDF with step-by-step instructions on how to push content from vjoon K4 to Twixl Publisher:
4. Other solutions
While the solutions above are already pre-configured to be used with Twixl's Integration API, and can be used more or less 'out of the box', you can basically push content from any other external CMS solution, such as WordPress or Drupal-based web sites, using the Integration API documentation on the Twixl platform.
