topic Re: Custom Thumbnails in Alfresco Archive

Custom Thumbnails

miguelut — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:18:40 GMT

Hey Folks –I need a bit of help here. I have proprietary files in the Alfresco repo and I need to generate/attach thumbnails to them so they show up in the browser, and I'm just not sure how to go about doing that. I'm an Alfresco newbie so I'm not even sure which API to use (or if this is simply

Re: Custom Thumbnails

rjohnson — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:39:32 GMT

What you need to do is define your proprietry format as a dummy mime type and then create a thumbnail context for that mimetype. The best example is to look at the video-thumbnail-context.xml.sample. This uses ffmpeg to generate thumbnails from video files.

You need a version of this for your mimetype.

Bob Johnson

Re: Custom Thumbnails

miguelut — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:11:58 GMT

Bob –

I really appreciate you taking the time to respond to my post. Your brief yet informative response helped point me in the right direction and allowed me to get this up and running after beating my head against the wall for a few days.

~Michael