generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://developers.bynder.com/universal-compact-view,
  https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bynder/compact-view,
  https://support.bynder.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013932739-Understanding-Universal-Compact-View-UCV
note: >-
  Bynder ships one embeddable client-side component family. It is a genuinely
  distinct product from the REST SDKs in packages/: Universal Compact View is a
  prebuilt asset-picker surface that handles the DAM authentication, search and
  selection UI for you, so a host application can add "insert an asset from
  Bynder" without calling the REST API at all.
family_count: 1
families:
- name: Universal Compact View (UCV)
  kind: embedded-picker
  description: >-
    A configurable, prebuilt UI component that opens a window into a Bynder
    portal from inside another application. Users query, filter (by smartfilter,
    metaproperty, tag, keyword or existing collection), sort and select assets,
    and the component hands the selection — original files, derivatives, metadata
    and tags — back to the host system.
  written_in: TypeScript
  docs: https://developers.bynder.com/universal-compact-view
  overview_docs: https://developers.bynder.com/uicomponents.html
  support_docs: https://support.bynder.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013932739-Understanding-Universal-Compact-View-UCV
  quick_start: https://support.bynder.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013871340-Quick-Start-Guide-for-Universal-Compact-View
  integration_guide: https://support.bynder.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013871360-Integrate-Universal-Compact-View
  demo: https://support.bynder.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013932699-Universal-Compact-View-Demo
  loader:
    registry: npm
    package: '@bynder/compact-view'
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bynder/compact-view
    install: npm install @bynder/compact-view
    version: 5.4.0
    published: '2026-06-09'
    official: true
  asset_types_supported: [image, video, document, audio]
  returns: [original file, derivatives, metadata, tags]
  configuration:
    style: javascript-api
    note: >-
      From Universal Compact View 2 onwards configuration moved from HTML data
      attributes to a JavaScript API that controls the component lifetime
      programmatically. The documented breaking change on that migration is
      confined to the `@bynder/compact-view/components` entry point.
  third_party_integrations:
  - name: Magnolia CMS
    url: https://docs.magnolia-cms.com/bynder-universal-compact-view-integration/
    note: Magnolia ships a first-party-documented UCV integration module.
not_components:
  note: >-
    The server-side REST clients (@bynder/bynder-js-sdk, bynder-sdk, bynder-php-sdk,
    bynder-java-sdk, Bynder.Sdk) are catalogued in packages/bynder-packages.yml.
    The WordPress and Sitecore connectors are packaged applications, not embeddable
    components, and are listed under related_first_party there.