Canva Import
v1.0.0Overview
A second way for artwork to arrive. The customer signs in to their own Canva account, picks a design, and the add-on pulls a print-ready export straight onto the job — where it meets the same bleed, resolution and dimension checks as a file dragged in from a desktop. A design made for the screen usually arrives with no bleed at all, and that comes back as a failed check with the remedy attached: scale it by 10.9% and it fits. It brings no tables of its own, because a design that arrives this way is simply artwork on the job — which is the point of writing it against the same artwork-source contract as the editor. In the demo it talks to a stand-in transport, so no real account is ever reached.
What it attaches to
An add-on extends an app you already run, and is never deployed on its own. This one attaches to:
What connecting lets it do
The works signs in once with its own account. Adminium asks that account only to list designs and read the one you pick; the token is encrypted on the server and never reaches the browser. On this side it may read the job being worked on and write the imported file into your file store. Its server half may call one address and nothing else.
Inside your own installation
- Read the job it is working on
- Write files into your file store
On the account you sign in to
- List the designs in your account
- Read the contents of a design you pick
Addresses its server code may reach
- api.canva.com
That list is the whole list: a call to any other address is refused and recorded.
What it needs to connect
A sign-in to your own account
What it adds
Where it appears 2
- The artwork step, where a customer chooses how to send a design
- Its own panel under Add-ons in the dashboard settings
Tables it brings 0
None — it brings no tables of its own.
If you switch it off
Disconnecting removes an add-on’s surfaces. It never drops the tables it created, deletes the files it wrote, or removes the rows it added — everything it wrote stays in your database. The credentials it was given are revoked and deleted with it.
What stays
Artwork already imported stays on its job, checks and all.
What goes
The import leaves the artwork step and the stored token is deleted. The account it signed in to is untouched.
About the demo
No demo on this site makes a real call to anyone else’s service. Every add-on ships a stand-in transport that answers from built-in data, and it is on by default. Real credentials are a self-host choice, described in the add-on’s own README.
How to switch it on In the demo, switch to the Print shop side, open Add-ons and turn Canva Import on — then start a job and go to the artwork step.
Adminium is not affiliated with this company.