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Administration

The administration section gives you the ability to manage your Amazon S3 Buckets.

Create Bucket Association

To create a new Bucket association, click on "Add new bucket association"

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You need to fill in all fields to successfully add new bucket association:

• Friendly name — represents the name of the account that will be used in the macro and it will mask your real S3 Bucket name.

• Bucket name — represents your real Amazon S3 account name

• Access Key — This is actually a username. It is alphanumeric text string that uniquely identifies the user who owns the account. It is Access Key.

• Access Secret — This key plays the role of a password . It’s called secret because it is assumed to be known by the owner only.

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To test your Bucket credentials just click on the button “Test connection” and you will be inform about validation result.

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Once you fill in all fields click on the button “Save” and your account will be stored.

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If you need to change your bucket association details you can do it when you click on the button “Edit” at the end of the row with listed account details.

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If you want to delete your existing configured bucket association only click on the button “Delete” at the end of the row with account details you want to remove.

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Using the S3 Macro on a page

Macro "Amazon S3 Storage Connector" is responsible for rendering the content of Amazon S3 Buckets.

Create a new page or edit an existing page, open a Macro browser and click on the category "Media".

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Click on the macro and to show the configuration page where you can set the following parameters:

• Title — Set title for macro content. It will be shown before the content.
• Bucket — Set the bucket whose content will be shown. Buckets can be configured only in administration.
• Show border — Allow showing borders around macro content.
• Display image thumbnails — Allow rendering thumbnails of images.
• View as:
  • Directory listing — Bucket content will be rendered as directory listing which is similar to a traditional file manager.
  • Tree structure — Bucket content will be rendered in a tree view structure.

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Selected path in macro will be used as a default root path when a macro is rendered on a page. It means that user cannot traverse above of selected path.

To insert macro with set configuration into a page just click on the button Insert.

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To edit macro just click on the macro placeholder when editing a page. Property panel gives you also ability to quickly change the title of the macro.

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Example of Macro content

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