Set a page thumbnail in Easy Edit Suite

Squiz Matrix Support
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Hi everyone,


Q: Is there a way for editors to set a standard page's thumbnail when they are using the Easy Edit Suite?



I've got lots of areas of our sites where its great to have a thumbnail image that I can easily display alongside the page details - like lists of news pages, job pages, search results etc.

But my editors use Easy Edit Suite to create pages, and there doesn't seem to be a way for them to set a page thumbnail, so instead they link images with a certain link value, and I have to use a combination of asset lists and paint layouts to output the image, rather than just a simple %asset_thumbnail% keyword.



I could set a trigger to set the thumbnail when a image is linked under a page with a set link value - but just thought I'd ask the obvious question first!



Thanks,

Charlie.

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Hi everyone,



Q: Is there a way for editors to set a standard page's thumbnail when they are using the Easy Edit Suite?



I've got lots of areas of our sites where its great to have a thumbnail image that I can easily display alongside the page details - like lists of news pages, job pages, search results etc.

But my editors use Easy Edit Suite to create pages, and there doesn't seem to be a way for them to set a page thumbnail, so instead they link images with a certain link value, and I have to use a combination of asset lists and paint layouts to output the image, rather than just a simple %asset_thumbnail% keyword.



I could set a trigger to set the thumbnail when a image is linked under a page with a set link value - but just thought I'd ask the obvious question first!



Thanks,

Charlie.

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Hi Charlie,



We've written a plugin that allows you to view the current thumbnail of a asset when in EES and set a new one if required. Its quite straightforward and involves the creation of a trigger and about 10 lines of JS code. Im sure Squiz support will hook this up for you, should take 20min max





Cheers,



Suren

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Hi Suren,


Thanks, that sounds like it will sort things out for me!

I'll get in touch with Squiz on Monday to book that in.



Cheers!

Charlie.

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Hi Charlie


The code that Suren is talking about allows the user to use the Asset picker to change/apply the thumbnail. It's pretty cool stuff



Hope you're well



Dave

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Hey there,


This is my first post here! I'm in the same boat as Charlie where I've resorted to using Asset Listing and Paint Layouts to simulate thumbnails since EES doesn't support them. I was going to try mucking around in the EES code to see how to fire up the Asset Finder and create the NOTICE|thumbnail link, but if there's a plugin out there it be awesome to get a copy of it. Any chance of that happening?



Cheers,

Luke

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The new update for EES, which is high likely to be 5/9/11 (depending on testing), includes this feature as well as future status


Dave