Dr. Q's Workshop

With Lab3c and Enterprise 3.0, We now provide thumbnail service for images and documents. However, for now, we only expose it to UI on Alfresco share side although the related java APIs and webscript services apply to regular DM documents as well.

An easy and non intrusive way is to use a custom view template which can interact with the back end thumbnail webscript services for generating and displaying thumbnails.

You can find this thumbnail view template which will just do that. It first invokes thumbnail definitions service using YUI Connection Manager to get a list of thumbnail options that are defined within Alfresco. Once user selects an option, it will send request to the thumbnail creation service to generate the thumbnail with the corresponding size. And the thumbnail display DIV will then be refreshed to show the new thumbnail.

So download it and upload it to Data Dictionary/Presentation Templates and then associate it to any document as a custom view.

By the way, Happy Holidays!