[Resolved] How do display PDF thumbnails on page

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[stanleyM-2]

I building a media page which has a lot of PDFs, I want to have these pdfs show their thumbnails along with title text next to them.
I need to know, how I can go about this on toolset? I could only find one article online which touches on this and it required some code. I hoping there is a no code solution?

Regards

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

There is no such feature available with Toolset using which you can display the uploaded PDF thumbnails.

Here are few related tickets that might give you idea how you can display PDF thumbnails:
- https://toolset.com/forums/topic/how-to-display-thumbnails-of-of-pdfs-uploaded-to-the-types-document-field/#post-545983
- https://toolset.com/forums/topic/trying-suggestions-for-pdf-thumbnails-not-working/
- https://toolset.com/forums/topic/displaying-the-pdf-thumbnail-instead-of-plain-link-in-loop/

OR

You can try to use the following plugin:
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-thumbnail-generator/

[stanleyM-2]

I am to use pdf-thumbnail-generator, how must I add the pdfs to my container in order for the to show as thumbnails?
Should I add them as a single field, button, field and text? Asking cause toolset has a number of ways you can link to a pdf so I need to know which way works well with the plugin in order to achieve the required result?

Regard.

[Minesh]

Can you please setup a test with with "pdf-thumbnail-generator" plugin installed and send me admin access details after that I will try to test it as with the sandbox we have we dont have capabilities to add imagemagic library:
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-thumbnail-generator/

I have set the next reply to private which means only you and I have access to it.

[stanleyM-2]

The domain is behind a firewall and you would need a VPN to connect so unfortunately I can't share admin credentials with you cause even if I did, you would still need a VPN connection. So we need a work around here. However I will test and see, how it goes.

[Minesh]

I'm afraid as per our support policy - if you want help with a 3rd party plugin that has specific server requirements you will needs to provide such server setup with a test environment that we can access and then we can work on such test site to see what will be the possible solution.

If you do not want to do that I already shared workaround that might be helpful and should work.

Here are those related tickets:
- https://toolset.com/forums/topic/how-to-display-thumbnails-of-of-pdfs-uploaded-to-the-types-document-field/#post-545983
- https://toolset.com/forums/topic/trying-suggestions-for-pdf-thumbnails-not-working/
- https://toolset.com/forums/topic/displaying-the-pdf-thumbnail-instead-of-plain-link-in-loop/

[stanleyM-2]

The solutions provided are code based and the instruction when building this site was not to use code. So I can't really use those suggested options hence asking about the plugin option. Furthermore it's not that I do not want to share the credentials but I am not allowed to. I might have to abandon this design style and try something else.

[Minesh]

As you understand you have limitations we have limitations as well and we can not work beyond the defined scope of our support policy.

You're welcome to create new ticket with every new question you may have.