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Uploading thumbnail for a page from DAM in AEM 6.3

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December 11, 2017
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Hi All,

Is there any way to drag and drop an image as a thumnail for a page in page properties in 6.3.

Recently i migrated my application from 6.1 to 6.3.

we had this functionality in 6.1 but now we have only option to upload a thumnail but we cant use any asset from dam for thumbnails.

Any idea?? Am i missing something?

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Best answer by rmahendra

You could add a path browser(with name ./image/FileReference) in the page properties to select the image from dam. Something like this.

in AEM 63, page properties is opened in a different page instead of a dialog. So you don't have access to the content finder. I am not sure if there is any easier way to have drag and drop,

smacdonald2008

Level 10

See this thread from last may -- it talks about the same subject - Adding thumbnail image to Template

manish_anandAuthor

Level 3

HI Smacdonald2008,

Thanks for the reply.

This thread describes the way to set thumbnail at template level which will be common for all the pages that will be created from this template.

If i am not specifying any thumbnail for a a page this template level thumbnail will come into action.

But here my requirement is to set different thumbnail for different pages. It should specifically come from dam and needs to create "FileReference" property in Image node.

Is there any way to achieve it?

Thanks

Techaspect_Solu

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Hi,

You can acheive your use case by installing Adobe Experience Manager Desktop App (Adobe Experience Manager Desktop App is a new name for AEM Assets Companion App, introduced in AEM 6.1 release.)

You can download this app at:

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/download-companion-app.html

Once you download Adobe Experience Manager Desktop App, follow the below steps:

1) Double-click the downloaded MSI file, and follow the instructions in the installation wizard to install AEM Desktop App.

2) To map your AEM instance with AEM Desktop App, specify the name of the host machine that runs your AEM instance and the port number (http:<aem-url>:port).

3) In the login screen, specify the user name and password for your instance. Select the Alternate Login URL option to specify an alternate AEM instance.

4) Once you login, you'll be able to see dam drive in your local system so that you can upload thumbnail image for any required page from here (DAM).

FYI:

Adobe Experience Manager Desktop App lets you map the AEM Assets repository to a network directory so assets within AEM are available at your local system.

You can create, edit, or delete files from Finder/Explorer. The changes are automatically synchronized with AEM Assets and vice-versa. In other words, any changes that you make to the assets from Finder/Explorer are reflected in AEM Assets. Similarly, any changes you make within AEM Assets are visible from Finder/Explorer.

For more information, please visit:

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/6-3/sites/administering/using/aem-desktop-app.html

We hope this information helps!

Regards,

TechAspect Solutions

manish_anandAuthor

Level 3

Hi,

I dont need desktop app to to upload images.

When i am uploading an image from my local system in page properties thumbnail tab..It is creating a node image in /content directory and inside image node --file/file.sftmp->jcr:content->renditions

But i want a fileReference property to be created on image node instide file node which i discussed above.

Can it be done?

rmahendra

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You could add a path browser(with name ./image/FileReference) in the page properties to select the image from dam. Something like this.

in AEM 63, page properties is opened in a different page instead of a dialog. So you don't have access to the content finder. I am not sure if there is any easier way to have drag and drop,