topic Re: thumbnail in Alfresco Archive

thumbnail

friedman30 — Thu, 10 May 2007 10:43:53 GMT

Hi all.[size=75](a newbie question…) [/size]I am trying to create a thumbnail view, which is different from the "Alfresco Thumbnail V0.2" solution.All i need to do, is to add an aspect to every space or content, which will hold a link to a thumbnail that i would store in the repository. (i can't us

Re: thumbnail

friedman30 — Sun, 20 May 2007 06:46:51 GMT

anyone???

:?: :?: :?:

Re: thumbnail

kevinr — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:39:09 GMT

Changing the icon that is displayed will require you to change the core BrowseBean class - as it generates the URLs to the icons based on the filename extension. You would need to make it so that the resolverFileType16 and resolverFileType32 inner classes search for your aspect and return the URL to the thumbnail image instead of the default icon if present.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: thumbnail

friedman30 — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:30:43 GMT

thanks Kevin!!!

:arrow:

By now i've added a custom aspect (Thumbnail Aspect) that holds a link to the desired thumb.

How (and where from) do i read this property at run-time? :?:
i could not find it anywhere…

Thanks,

Dror

Re: thumbnail

kevinr — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:45:23 GMT

Properties can be get/set and aspects can be applied/removed through the NodeService API. There are many examples in the Alfresco code.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: thumbnail

friedman30 — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:56:46 GMT

thanks Kevin,

I guess i was not specific enough,
I have a custom aspect, in which i want to get a link (path) from the user.

for that, in the aspect, i have defined an association, so that the user will get a dialog and chose the file to link to.

<aspect name="custom:ThumbnailAspect">
       <title>Thumbnail Aspect</title>
       <associations>
            <association name="custom:Thumbnail">
               <title>Thumbnail</title>
               <source> 
                <many>true</many> 
             </source> 
               <target>
                  <class>cm:content</class>
                  <mandatory>false</mandatory>
                        <many>false</many> 
                   </target>
               </association>
          </associations>
    </aspect>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

How do i read (at runtime) the link that the user chose ? it is a part of the aspect, but it is defined within the association (is it really??)…
Is there any better way to get a path from the user??? :?

as much as i dig in to it, i can't find the place that this data is stored….

thanks,

Dror

Re: thumbnail

kevinr — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:58:15 GMT

Which API are you using to read the value? Java/Javascript/FreeMarker?

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: thumbnail

friedman30 — Sat, 26 May 2007 21:25:17 GMT

It is Java.
(I'm editing the source code - from svn rev.569 )

by now i edited some .xml files, Browse.jsp & BrowseBean.java

Thanks.

Dror