Does anyone know a way to replace the default Notes attachment icon with a thumbnail? For example if I attach pictures then it would be great to see the attachments as a thumbnail. Now user have to open the attachment in order to see the actual picture.
The view’s column formula can compute to html to show the image of the attachment. You can use size parameters in the html to make it look like a thumbnail.
For better bandwidth, though, you would have to actually have a thumbnail image attached to the document as well as the original attachment. In Windows platforms, you can use the PolyImage2 library (www.polybytes.com) to programmatically create thumbnail attachments.
We have been using this great product ‘ThumbNailer’ from a company called PeopleWare located in Belgium (info@peopleware.be). It has two features:1) it automatically creates a thumbnail whilst attaching a file (picture)
it can also run in batch to replace the default icon with a thumbnail