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Thumbnails

andyhorton — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:32:02 GMT

Alfresco 4.I have a site with many hundreds of folders containing photo (jpg) files. When I go to a folder for the first time, there are no thumbnails. If I refresh the folder (with the browser's refresh button) the folder does show thumbnails. It is clear from monitoring the system's CPU etc, tha

Re: Thumbnails

jpfi — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:27:46 GMT

Hi,
yub, you should use javaScript API http://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/references/API-JS-Thumbnail-createThumbnail.html
a) add a rule & implement a small javascript action if you like to have this non-lazy thumbnail generation for special user only
or b) call

newFile.createThumbnail("doclib", true);‍

for each via Share uploaded file (templates\webscripts\org\alfresco\repository\upload\upload.post.js)

You can also add "doclib" to showConfig.thumbnails of Share's upload components…but that's a little bit more tricky.
cheers, jan

Re: Thumbnails

synfe — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:17:14 GMT

Hi Jan,

Could you please elaborate on adding "doclib to showConfig.thumbnails of Share's upload components"?

or generally I guess my question is… I am using Java web service with Alfresco 4.0.d and looking to add thumbnail functionality; I am able to fetch the thumbnail, but only once its been refreshed through the share UI. Can you recommend the best way to have this thumbnail available right away?

Thanks