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kynabaker16
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
July 30, 2021

Hey Sam, I had people check and it looks like this might not be possible, but I know there are some text mode wizards out there that might be aware of some kind of fancy work around.

Kyna

SamanthaIsin
August 2, 2021

Thanks @Kyna Baker - inactive‚!

skyehansen
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
August 2, 2021

I'd kind of like to hear more about the use -- what is the report trying to do, and why can't we use the proof thumbnail instead of the document version thumbnail? And is it possible to get close with a document report calling out proof details?

SamanthaIsin
August 2, 2021

@Skye Hansen‚ It's specifically a proof approval report which we can't get close to with a document report (Unless you know how to filter document reports down to this). I need to display all the proofs a specific user is currently the pending approver on.

They want to see the thumbnails because it gives them a quick way to identify what something is. A proof thumbnail would be great! Support gave me the text mode for it:

displayname=Preview

image.valuefield=documentVersion:document:previewURL

textmode=true

type=image

valuefield=documentVersion:document:previewURL

valueformat=HTML

But if proofs are PDFs then it won't generate a thumbnail. Most of our proofs are PDFs 😒

JohnMitchellWF
April 1, 2025

Uhhh. Wow. That worked.

If only I understood EXISTS filters 😂

The large thumbnail worked! It wasn't available as a canned field on a proof approval report and the substitute that support gave me would only generate thumbnails for PNGs and JPGs. Here's another question for you though - all of the sudden my text mode for generating a link directly to the proof doesn't work.

displayname=Proof Link

shortview=true

textmode=true

usewidths=true

valueexpression=CONCAT("https://melaleuca.my.workfront.com/document/",{documentVersion}.{ID},"/proof/",{documentVersion}.{proofID},"/view")

valueformat=HTML

width=200

Can I get your thoughts O great and powerful Workfront Wizard?


For anyone running into the issue Samanthalsin is describing...

When you move from a Document report to a Proof Approval report you need to update the syntax of the fields that the URL is using to assemble the link.

Document Report: valueexpression=CONCAT("https://melaleuca.my.workfront.com/document/",{documentVersion}.{ID},"/proof/",{documentVersion}.{proofID},"/view")

Proof Approval Report: valueexpression=CONCAT("https://melaleuca.my.workfront.com/document/",{documentVersion}.{document}.{currentVersion}.{ID},"/proof/",{documentVersion}.{document}.{currentVersion}.{proofID},"/view")

Because we are shifting out target objects when we change reports, we also have to update the targets in the URL we're generating with the valueexpression.

Nothing like finding and resurrecting an old thread with a problem you just ran into and fixed 😄

ewanh
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
October 28, 2021

Hi @Samantha Isin‚

Looking for some other ideas of how to extend the proof approvals report and came across this request. Great solution by Skye..as always. From the Proof Approval Report that comes out of the box...you can also just add:

displayname=Image

image.valuefield=documentVersion:document:previewURL

textmode=true

type=image

valuefield=documentVersion:document:previewURL

valueformat=HTML

And that should add the image.

Cheers!