Rendering a document uses a workflow component that connects to a previously installed Thumbnail Manager service and "asks" for a document to be processed. The Thumbnail Manager has all the configuration for the renditions that will be produced. Installing a Thumbnail workflow component will allow the configured renditions to be produced for the document being processed. Note that the component requires a binary stream to the data of the file to render, so you’ll need to turn off text extraction (in the case of a standard connector) or write and then read from a binary store (in the case of a background processor) to make it work.

Installation and configuration

Step 1. Launch Aspire and Open the Content Source Management Page

  1. Launch Aspire (if it's not already running).
  2. Go to Launch Control.
  3. Browse to: http://localhost:50505

For details on using the Aspire Content Source Management page, see Admin UI.



Step 2. Add a new Content Source

  1. For this step please follow the step from the Configuration Tutorial of the connector of you choice, please refer to Connector list.



Step 3. Add a new Thumbnail rule to the Workflow

To add a Thumbnail application drag from the Thumbnail rule from the Workflow Library and drop to the Workflow Tree where you want to add it.

This will automatically open the Thumbnail window for the configuration of the application.

If the application is not shown, you can install a custom application with the co-ordinates com.accenture.aspire:app-thumbnail

Step 3a. Specify Application Information

 In the Thumbnail window, specify the requested information

  1. Thumbnail Manager
    1. Manager: Select the desired Thumbnail Manager that should be used to generate thumbnails from the drop-down
  2. Debug: Select this option to enable debugging information
  3. Click Add to save the workflow component
  4. Click Save and then Done to return to the Content Source Management page 

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