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Price
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Hi All,

I am having an issue with the Snippet "Thumbnail" section..

Basically I have developed a building block system within our system (all good so far). What I need to do now is make it slightly more understandable with image previews of what a certain part is...

For instance "Two Columns" = a simple image of .... yep two columns Smiley Happy.

I was think in the terms of having a CMS_REFERENCE that points to an image and only that image, so I can hide the form and easily bind it to the snippet.. I just don't know if it is possible or not. As in no selection of an image, the image is in the reference..

All the best and thanks in advance.

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mbergmann
Crownpeak employee

Hi David,

ok, but as those images are kind of โ€žpart of the templateโ€œ and only "UI features" for the editors it should be ok to also add them to the FirstSpirit project(s).

Michael

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mbergmann
Crownpeak employee

Hi David,

Iโ€˜m not sure if I understand your problem correctly. Do you just want to use a โ€žfixedโ€œ image for a specific template?

In this case, you can upload that image to the mediastore. Usually into a separate folder from which editors are not allowed to choose the picture in normal FS_REFERENCEs. Then use imageโ€™s uid (reference name) - e.g. "two_colums" - in the thumbnail part of the snippet definition like this:

medium("two_columns")

In case itโ€™s not that simple and the picture should NOT depend just on the template itself - what is the "logic" to decide which thumbnail to use?

Michael

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Price
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Hi Michael,


Thanks for your answer, the issue here is that our images are not on the same server as the templates, therefore I am having issues with this way. we have one for the templates and another for all media.

And yes the image should be fixed for a specific template.

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mbergmann
Crownpeak employee

Hi David,

ok, but as those images are kind of โ€žpart of the templateโ€œ and only "UI features" for the editors it should be ok to also add them to the FirstSpirit project(s).

Michael

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