WCP11g: Inline-Preview of Documents I (Concepts)
In the following ports I will try to explain how Inline Rendering of Documents works in WebCenter Portal 11g and I will show the different alternatives (out of the box and custom implementations) that you can take. In this post I will explain the Out of the Box possibilities that WebCenter Portal 11g offers. Note: Remember that this only applies to 11g version. In 12c the new Content Manager Task Flow is the unique component for accessing and managing documents. Basically, WebCenter Portal 11g brings two ways Out of the Box: Using Dynamic Converter. It uses three out of the box templates SLIDE-PREVIEW, SLIDE-LARGE-PREVIEW and SLIDE-PREVIEW-TEXT. They produce a HTML with a JQuery Slider of Images. Disabling Dynamic Converter will render de document depending on the Web Viewable version of the document. If PDF version is available it will show the PDF via the /webcenter/content/conn servlet If no PDF then it will show the metadata of the document without Inline Rendering. ...