Do any Out Of The Box compoents allow end users to view images on the DAM and test files stored in the JCR

[Clive_Stewart]

Hi,

I need to create an email interface for end users to be able to browse through a list of images I save to the dam.

I have a jcr page that manages the emailer interface.

Users fill in details in the web page it produces, when they click submit email I run a JQuery Ajax call to send the call to the company's email system REST api, with each parameter passed as a query string.

But now I am required to add two features to the e-mail system.

A new web page has been created for staff in the outside advertising agency we use to send promotional emails to a list of our customers. Along with this they will add promotional images to the email. Business has decided that all the images will reside on the dam.

Because of the restraints of the emailing system I have to work with, I have to send the images as urls pointing to images on the dam.

I am familiar with end users finding and using components in the DAM using a components dialog when in authoring mode.

But now I require the advertising agency to be able to find the image by clicking on a button on the Web Page I have built, this needs open up an interface for them to select an image. Then display it on the page and send the image url in the ajax call.

I need to do the same with test documents.

I would prefer to use an Out Of The Box AEM component, if such a one exists.

I would greatly appreciate any advice with this.

Regards

Clive Stewart

[smacdonald2008]

There is not a component like this. You would need to build  a custom one. What type of documents are you gonig to display. PDF for example? 

You can do this by creating a gallery or table component. Each row can show an image of the doc. For example - a PDF image (pull the image from the AEM DAM). Then have a link in the same row that will open the document and maybe a description. We have linked to PDFs in the DAM a lot in community pages and it works well. 

[Jitendra_S_Toma · Accepted solution]

Agreed with Scott. You have to develop such feature. Just for reference, you could explore DAM search functionality and this might help you in figuring out some sort of solution.

https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/develop/extending/assets/searchx.html

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jitendra