Configuring thumbnail generation

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Configuring thumbnail generation

Meridian Explorer shows thumbnails of documents on the General property page. The thumbnails are generated from the native file and stored separately in the repository. As new revisions of the documents are imported into the repository, the thumbnails should be regenerated to show the latest content.

To configure thumbnail generation:

In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the Repositories group, click Repositories. The All Repositories page appears and lists the existing Meridian Explorer repositories and Meridian Enterprise vaults.
Double-click the name of the repository that you want to configure. The Overview page for the repository appears.
In the menu, click MANAGEMENT TOOLS. The management tool s for the selected repository appear.
In the THUMBNAILS group, for the Timeout item, click EDIT. The THUMBNAIL SETTINGS dialog box appears.
Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

Thumbnail options
Option	Description
Regenerate items that failed before	By default, if thumbnail generation fails for a document, that document will be skipped during the next thumbnail update. Enable this option to retry the document during each update.
Width	The width of the thumbnail image in pixels. The default is 300.
Height	The height of the thumbnail image in pixels. The default is 200.
Timeout in seconds	The amount of time in seconds to wait for thumbnail generation to complete before an error is entered in the event logs and processing proceeds to the next thumbnail. Note The thumbnail process can stop responding if it encounters a problem in the native file.

Click UPDATE. The specified values appear in the THUMBNAILS group.

To generate the thumbnails immediately:

In the THUMBNAILS group, for the Schedule item, click RUN. A background task is started and you can continue working.

To schedule thumbnail generation:

In the THUMBNAILS group, for the Schedule item, click SCHEDULE. The SCHEDULE dialog box appears. This dialog box requires the same input as the Windows Task Scheduler.
Configure the scheduled task to run when you require and then click SCHEDULE.The task is modified and will run on the configured schedule.