topic Re: PDF document thumbnails in Alfresco Archive

PDF document thumbnails

morphinof — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:38:07 GMT

Hi !I have a problem with templates ublicationpage1 template works perfectly but sectionpage4 and 5 templates thumbnails for PDF / Word documents does not work even with wcmqs publication section rendition config :ws:image=ws:mediumPublicationThumbnail,application/pdf=ws:mediumPublicationThumbnail

Re: PDF document thumbnails

bremmington — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:40:32 GMT

In what way is it failing? Anything in either alfresco.log or wcmquickstart.log?

Re: PDF document thumbnails

morphinof — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:44:37 GMT

The thumbnail of any document in my section does not render, i have the missing image icon in my browser. Nothing particuliar in logs.

Re: PDF document thumbnails

bremmington — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:15:09 GMT

Which section are you uploading the new PDF file into? Is the rendition config that you described above defined on that section? If you upload the new PDF into the publication section on the sample site does its thumbnail appear?

Re: PDF document thumbnails

morphinof — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:01:17 GMT

Which section are you uploading the new PDF file into?

Custom section (not the "publication" pre-implemented by wcmqs)

Is the rendition config that you described above defined on that section?

Exactly the same as "publication" section :

Template Mapping:

cmis:document=publicationpage1,ws:indexPage=sectionpage4‍

Rendition Config:

ws:image=ws:mediumPublicationThumbnail,application/pdf=ws:mediumPublicationThumbnail,application/msword=ws:pdfWebasset,application/vnd.ms-excel=ws:pdfWebasset,application/vnd.ms-powerpoint=ws:pdfWebasset,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document=ws:pdfWebasset,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet=ws:pdfWebasset,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation=ws:pdfWebasset,application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text=ws:pdfWebasset,application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation=ws:pdfWebasset,application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet=ws:pdfWebasset‍

If you upload the new PDF into the publication section on the sample site does its thumbnail appear?

Yes it does

Re: PDF document thumbnails

morphinof — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:42:09 GMT

Ok i found the solution, in fact you have to set the rendition config before upload any asset in your collection, thumbnails rendition takes place at the upload only.
Problem solved !

Re: PDF document thumbnails

bremmington — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:20:42 GMT

Oh, yes. Sorry - didn't think to ask which order you'd done things in. It's an interesting idea, running rendition config changes when they're made. It was a conscious decision not to do that, as it wasn't clear what should happen if rendition definitions were removed from the config - should existing renditions be deleted?

Glad you found the solution.