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  • 1.  Viewing Thumbnail Photos posted as attachments on asset record

    Posted Mon November 01, 2021 06:13 PM

    Hi

     

    Is there a way to view a thumbnail preview of photos attached to asset records so that you can view without having to download the image?  We've taken several photos of each asset (in some cases upwards of 20) from the field.  The naming convention of these photos defaulted from the camera using a "ASSETNUM + photo #" for example 32456 (3).jpg  -- as such the naming convention doesn't help the user to know which photo to select when looking for nameplate, for example.   A preview option would be super helpful here.

     

    If not, I'll link out to an external storage (BOX) where the preview is available.

     

    --Nancy


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  • 2.  RE: Viewing Thumbnail Photos posted as attachments on asset record

    Posted Tue November 02, 2021 08:21 AM
    I don't know of an out of the box solution for doing something like this for Asset attachments in the classic UI today. Inside of the new Maximo Mobile applications (which can also be used in the web) or Work Centers (such as the Submit a Service Request) an image preview is available for attachments. Unfortunately neither of the frameworks has an Asset application where you could manage the Asset and depending on what all functionality you need it could take a while to build a version of them.

    In the classic UI if you had a single image you could use IMGLIB but based on your use case that's not an option. I'd be surprised if someone hasn't made a custom control for doing this in the classic Maximo UI (like an image carousel control).

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    Steven Shull
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  • 3.  RE: Viewing Thumbnail Photos posted as attachments on asset record

    Posted Wed November 03, 2021 06:13 AM
    Edited by System Admin Wed March 22, 2023 11:48 AM
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  • 4.  RE: Viewing Thumbnail Photos posted as attachments on asset record

    Posted Wed November 03, 2021 06:14 AM

    Hi Nancy,

    You can indeed use the IMGLIB functionality for this. In standard Maximo this has a 1:1 relationship with an Mbo. To work around this we have created a custom bridge table WOIMGLIB. In our case a workorder has a 1:N relationship with the bridge table and each record in the bridge table has a 1:1 relationship with the IMGLIB.

    Using this mechanism you can attach multiple IMGLIB's to an Mbo. The advantage of those IMGLIB's are that they can be previewed in within the UI without the need to download them. 

    1) create custom bridge table
    2) Create mechanism to insert the bridge table records together with every newly added picture. We do this from our mobile application framework. But recently we also found a way on how this can be done via the UI (re-using the 'add attachment' browse dialog and by converting the doclinks to IMGLIB's using an automation script).
    3) You need to create a dialog / tab to view all the IMGLIB records via a relationship to the bridge table (see attached screenshot).



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    Lars
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  • 5.  RE: Viewing Thumbnail Photos posted as attachments on asset record

    Posted Wed November 03, 2021 08:51 PM
    Excellent Solution Lars. I will try this in a demo environment.

    Just discussing the solution bit more:
    I would be interested to know how the performance of Maximo is after you displayed a number of original images( say 10 pictures in this show pictures window).
    Considering the images would be around 3-5 mb in size then I am thinking it would take a lot of time to load this page. Can you shed some light on this please?
    I think generating thumbnails from original images could be an use-case here.

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    Biplab Choudhury
    Maximo Consultant
    Tata Consultancy Services
    Melbourne
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  • 6.  RE: Viewing Thumbnail Photos posted as attachments on asset record

    Posted Thu November 04, 2021 04:13 AM
    Hi Biblap,

    The images send from our  mobile app are 1 mb maximum. I have seem dialog lists with 20 pictures (showed in pages of 10) which are loaded instantly. When opening the detail section it renders a larger preview which is also quite fast. So I think this is nothing to worry about.

    Furthermore, I have an automation script which creates IMGLIB records of the DOCLINK records and a script that can remove the doclinks based on a certain characteristic (of course you need to mark the doclinks after you migrated them so you know which ones can be removed).

    If you need more info, feel free to send me a private message.

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    Lars Kools
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  • 7.  RE: Viewing Thumbnail Photos posted as attachments on asset record

    Posted Thu November 04, 2021 05:29 AM

    Lars,

     

    This does indeed look like a doable solution.  We are going to prototype in our non-development environment.    Thank you for sharing!

     

    --Nancy




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