Pdf Thumbnail via `view-file` macro not working

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Hi everyone,
after migrating from Confluence all pdfs are shown as a white block, the pdf can be opned by clicking the block.

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In confluence a thumbnail was shown to make navigation through several pdfs on a page easy.

I tried using the view-file macro to show a thumbnail but only full display works. That makes navigating a page with a lot of pdfs very uncomfortable, the pages become huge.

Is there no way to show a static preview of the files?

Also, using view-file manually for hundreds of pdf files is not possible. I s there no way to set the macro globally so that all pdf files are effected by the macro?

Thanks a lot.

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Hello, I’m not familiar with the confluence migration.

Could you paste your content in wiki markup to see what macros are being used on your page?

Thx

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This is an example page. Where the file-view says display=full the displaying works, but not when it says display = thumbnail.




{{view-file att--filename="worklflow from paraffin infiltration to microscope slide.pptx" height="250" display="full"/}}

{{view-file att--filename="Blank PrintMate.xlsx" display="thumbnail" height="250"/}} Blank Excel sheet for PrintMate users




Cleaning microtome every three month

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{{view-file att--filename="HP .pdf" display="full" height="1000"/}}


{{view-file att--filename="Order form (Jan-2013).xls" display="thumbnail" height="250"/}}

{{view-file att--filename="Item figure-(Jan-2013).pdf" height="1000" display="full"/}}




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Information about our paraffin (Histoplast IM)

{{view-file att--filename="Paraffin d_1.pdf" display="thumbnail" height="250"/}}




{{view-file att--filename="Block-Archivsysteme.pdf" display="thumbnail" height="250"/}}




{{view-file att--filename="PB1015DE_Katalog_Mikrotom-Einmalklingen_DE.pdf" display="thumbnail" height="250"/}}
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ok thanks. Indeed it seems you’re using the Confluence migration paying extension from XWiki SAS and the view-file macro it provides at https://store.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Confluence%20Migration%20Toolkit/#HViewFile

Best is to check with them (you must have some paid support) as this forum is for extensions from extensions.xwiki.org.

Now, I don’t know of any extension from extensions.xwiki.org that does what you want. It would be a nice addition though.

Thx

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Thank you for your answer.

I tried it with the PDF Viewer Macro, looks the same.

Can I somehow determine that all pdfs in the wiki use a certain macro automatically? It would be a huge amount of work to activate the macro for every single pdf file, the wiki probably contains several hundreds.

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AFAIK the PDF viewer extension doesn’t allow displaying a preview thumbnail.

I don’t understand the use case. PDFs are attached to wiki pages, they’re not part of the content and thus there’s no macro used for them. You’d use a macro if you wanted to add a display of the PDF inside a wiki page content for example.