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Adding a rendition to a document via CMIS?

gregbpopstar — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:07:39 GMT

Hi,I am using Alfresco as a digital asset manager and have written custom transform / rendition code to generate thumbnails and previews in the past. What I want to do now, however, is give the option of uploading a custom thumbnail for an asset. When this is done, I would like that thumbnail to b

Re: Adding a rendition to a document via CMIS?

fmui — Tue, 10 May 2011 11:47:24 GMT

It is not possible to upload custom renditions. The CMIS specification doesn't support that.
It would be also difficult to manage since renditions are automatically deleted when the original content is updated.

The only solution I can think of is to create another document (the thumbnail) and add a behavior that make this document the thumbnail of the original content.

Re: Adding a rendition to a document via CMIS?

gregbpopstar — Fri, 20 May 2011 20:45:20 GMT

Thanks fmui. That's the conclusion I came to also.