Request & Response Types

  • AssetAccessRequest: The vendor requests DAM to confirm that it has access to one or more digital asset files.
  • AssetAccessResponse: This is the response for an AssetAccessRequest and indicates whether the vendor has access to the specified asset.


  • AssetMetadataRequest The vendor requests DAM to provide metadata for new, updated, and deleted assets for the timeframe in the request.
  • AssetMetadataResponse: This is the response for an AssetMetadataRequest and will contain detailed information about all assets that satisfy the query condition in the AssetMetadata Request. This response will contain asset title, asset format, artists and writers for the asset (also known as Contributors), categories to which the asset belongs, sellable country restrictions for the asset, retail price, and other data regarding each of the assets.


  • TransactionOpenRequest: The vendor requests DAM to open one or more sale transactions on digital assets.
  • TransactionOpenResponse: This is the response for a TransactionOpenRequest and will specify whether the transaction was successfully opened, along with other information regarding the status of the transaction.


  • TransactionRetryRequest: The vendor requests a retry of one or more previous transactions.
  • TransactionRetryResponse: This is the response for a TransactionRetryRequest and will specify details about the status of the retry request.


  • TransactionCancelRequest: The vendor requests that one or more previous transactions be cancelled.
  • TransactionCancelResponse: This is the response for a TransactionCancelRequest and will contain other details about the status of the cancel request.


  • TransactionStatusRequest: The vendor requests the status of one or more previous transactions.
  • TransactionStatusResponse: This is the response for a TransactionStatusRequest and will contain the status information for one or more transactions specified in the request.


  • AutoPrintRequest: The vendor requests a single PDF file of all combined sheets from an order. This is new in version 5.0.
  • AutoPrintResponse: This is the response for an AutoPrintRequest and will contain an expiring URL to a personalized PDF. This is new in version 5.0.


  • ResourceRequest: The vendor requests some type of resource dependent on the input parameters. This is new in version 5.0.
  • ResourceResponse: This is the response for a ResourceRequest and will contain a URL to a resource. This is new in version 5.0.


  • ModifiedFileRequest: The vendor requests a list of files that have been modified within a certain date range. This is new in version 5.0.
  • ModifiedFileResponse: This is the response for a ModifiedFileRequest and will contain the list of modified files and minimal information about each one. This is new in version 5.0.


  • ErrorResponse: An ErrorResponse is the response returned for any type of request that the DAM server cannot respond to in a meaningful way, for instance if the XML request cannot be parsed, or the vendor is not correctly identified.