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    Is there a way that we can have the thumbnail view of the documents that are uploaded in SharePoint Document Library. We have thumbnail feature in Picture Library but can we have the same in Document Library too. Documents includes Words,Excel,PDF.

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    Monday, September 13, 2010 8:04 PM

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    Hey Mike,

    Good post, I'd be curious to see if anyone has used the GD Picture SDK with SharePoint, maybe there would be some sample code.

    Hey Kukdai,

    Developing your own solution would potentially provide a better way to accomplish your task, but before setting out on that long road you may want to try the simple customization, it's less time consuming and it will help gauge your customer's interest and support.

    Also, there is a wealth of open source code for SharePoint available on CodePlex, you might want to check that out as well.  Here is the linK:

    http://www.codeplex.com/

    Also, here is an interesting project to consider for your task:

    http://enhancedpicture.codeplex.com/

    I hope that helps!

    Tom Molskow SharePoint Architect - If I solved the issue please propose my reply as the answer - Thanks!
    • Marked as answer by Leoyi Sun Friday, September 17, 2010 5:43 AM
    • Edited by Tom Molskow Friday, May 18, 2012 1:48 PM
    Wednesday, September 15, 2010 6:49 PM

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    Hey Kukdai,

    You could create thumbnails in a picture library as described in the article below:

    http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2009/01/23/how-to-create-a-thumbnail-picture-library-view-in-sharepoint-2007/

    Then, in your picture library, add the document library content type.  Now, with both content types present you can created a mixed list that contains both the picture library metadata (including the thumbnail) and the document library metadata.  Please LMK if you need any help with these steps.

     

    I hope that helps!

    Tom Molskow SharePoint Architect - If I solved the issue please propose my reply as the answer - Thanks!
    Tuesday, September 14, 2010 6:51 PM
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    Hi TOM,

    Thanks for your suggestion.

    I tried this but here for the thumbnail i get the icon only such as word icon for word files and pdf icons for pdf files but i am looking for is a kind of thumbnail view of the first page of my document...if you have a pdf doc in your desktop it displays the first page as icons i am looking for something like that ....

    Tuesday, September 14, 2010 8:24 PM
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    Hey kukdai,

    Oh sorry, no for my suggestion you actually have to create the thumbnail yourself.  If you are asking will SharePoint automatically create a thumbnail of your document once you upload or add it, unfortunately the answer is no, it just doesn't support that capability.

     

    I hope that helps!

    Tom Molskow SharePoint Architect - If I solved the issue please propose my reply as the answer - Thanks!
    Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:54 PM
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    is there a way how can i create thumbnail preview for those documents ......... I am looking for any samples or way to start.......
    Wednesday, September 15, 2010 3:11 PM
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    Yes, this article will show you how:

    http://www.technospot.net/blogs/create-a-thumbnail-of-microsoft-office-documents-when-you-save-it/

     

    I hope that helps!

    Tom Molskow SharePoint Architect - If I solved the issue please propose my reply as the answer - Thanks!
    Wednesday, September 15, 2010 6:03 PM
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    Unfortunately, SharePoint doesn't provide this sort of functionality out of the box.  Luckily, SharePoint is flexible enough to allow for custom solutions that can solve this issue.

    You could probably use some code in an event handler that generates and stores a thumbnail image when a new document is uploaded. Then you can display the thumbnail in a view.

    Here's what I found for PDFs:
    http://www.codeproject.com/KB/GDI-plus/pdfthumbnail.aspx

    And I've not tested this but it sounds promising:
    http://www.gdpicture.com/products/dotnet/document-imaging-sdk.php

     

    Wednesday, September 15, 2010 6:36 PM
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    Hey Mike,

    Good post, I'd be curious to see if anyone has used the GD Picture SDK with SharePoint, maybe there would be some sample code.

    Hey Kukdai,

    Developing your own solution would potentially provide a better way to accomplish your task, but before setting out on that long road you may want to try the simple customization, it's less time consuming and it will help gauge your customer's interest and support.

    Also, there is a wealth of open source code for SharePoint available on CodePlex, you might want to check that out as well.  Here is the linK:

    http://www.codeplex.com/

    Also, here is an interesting project to consider for your task:

    http://enhancedpicture.codeplex.com/

    I hope that helps!

    Tom Molskow SharePoint Architect - If I solved the issue please propose my reply as the answer - Thanks!
    • Marked as answer by Leoyi Sun Friday, September 17, 2010 5:43 AM
    • Edited by Tom Molskow Friday, May 18, 2012 1:48 PM
    Wednesday, September 15, 2010 6:49 PM
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    Hi Tom,

    Thanks for your solution described above about creating a mixed list.  Can you provide the details on how to mix the picture library metadata and document library metadata so that the corresponding thumbnail will appear next to its document title?

    Tuesday, September 25, 2012 5:28 PM
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    Hi,

    you can try our commercial product HarePoint Thumbnails for SharePoint 2010 and 2013:

    http://www.harepoint.com/Products/HarePointThumbnails/Default.aspx

    It can display tumbnails for Office documents, PDFs and images.

    WBR,

    Alexander


    • Proposed as answer by Tom Molskow Thursday, April 4, 2013 1:00 PM
    Thursday, April 4, 2013 10:05 AM
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    Using the Open with Explorer option and then using any of the thumbnail view in Explorer will give you the same result within a document library - of course not the same thing but if you can put instructions for your users on the page - it may be alternative...
    Thursday, November 7, 2013 7:53 AM
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    Nowadays I would look at making use of a Search Query webpart and use the display template to make up the returned results. Hovering over a document in the search results shows a preview (and more) out of the box.

    https://support.office.com/en-au/article/Change-how-search-results-look-by-using-result-types-and-display-templates-0fc83eeb-28c8-4f65-afe3-0ee515296a9d

    kind regards, Carry Megens

    Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:46 PM
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    hi,

    You can do it easily in SharePoint 2013 with Office Web Apps integration using JSLink:

    Look that

    http://blog.josequinto.,com/2014/11/13/create-thumbnails-view-using-client-side-rendering-and-owa-in-sharepoint-2013/

    Regards!

    José Quinto Zamora SharePoint and Search Specialist MCITP and MCPD in SharePoint 2010 http://blog.josequinto.com 


    Thursday, May 28, 2015 9:49 AM
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    broken link. "hope it helps". it doesn't.
    Monday, November 19, 2018 6:27 AM
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    broken link again. how is it that people posting links to their own blogs in just a few short years forget they were referenced in some MSDN forum and delete the post anyway? it causes waste of time by following garbage that somehow still lives in Google.
    Monday, November 19, 2018 6:31 AM