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The steps to connect Sitecore Content Hub to Sitecore XM Cloud is listed out in this Walkthrough But below are notes from my setup experience. Prerequisites   A. Create a service account user called “XMconnectServiceUser” (that has an email associated with it) using the doc link . You should create a password at the end of this step B. Create an OAuth client by going to the “OAuth clients” section of the Manage admin page (gear icon in top right nav) in Content Hub.  Name: Content Hub “Env” Connector example: Content Hub Dev Connector Client ID: Any GUID example: 5fd3b02d-aad7-4a18-b1b9-c63a9a69fd7c Client Secret: Any GUID example: 0b055826-c14e-44fa-b206-cff37499e229 Redirect Url: The Content Hub Url example: https://dom-d-001.sitecorecontenthub.cloud/ Client Type: Client Credentials Users: XMconnectServiceUser We can follow the Walkthrough for the following two sections. 1. Configure and enable the DAM connector in ...

Below are my notes when setting up a local Sitecore XM Cloud development environment. There are many good blog articles for local XM setup but the following 3 were the most useful for me Blog 1 - Used for Docker setup Blog 2 - Used for Rendering site setup Blog 3 - Used to install test content in local CM Using the information from the first 2 articles I was able to setup my local docker environment by running the up.ps1 script and then having a local Sitecore instance running on https://xmcloudcm.localhost I also had my local next js rendering site running using start:connected and accessed using the url http://localhost:3000 You can write all your rendering React code in your React app. You can create components using Json renderings in Sitecore and have corresponding tsx files in the components folder of your React app. For any Sitecore content items that are part of the component, you serialize those items as yml files in your codebase. ...