We use the Repository module to house issues of our club newsletter.  Each newsletter issue is a PDF file.  We generate a thumbnail image of the first page for the repository entry.

I have received many requests from our users to have the thumbnail image initiate the download of the newsletter instead of presenting the thumbnail image in a new page.  Can this be accomplished through the templates, or do I need to alter the code?

Thanks.

The THUMBNAIL token is a quick shortcut to displaying a resized image, and you are correct it does not support the DOWNLOAD setting.

However, the IMAGE token does.  

Normally, the [IMAGE] token displays the image full size, however, if you add a setting to the [IMAGE] token in the template.xml file named "DOWNLOAD" and set it's value to "true" (note: setting and value are case-sensitive), it will use the "Width" setting of the [THUMBNAIL] token to resize the image and trigger the download function when clicked.

So replace the [THUMBNAIL] token with [IMAGE], then in the template.xml file, add settings to the [IMAGE] token settings to set the "DOWNLOAD" setting to "true", and make sure the "Width" setting is set on the [THUMBNAIL] token.

Hi Steve.Please let me know what the proper way to include XML and HTML snippets is. My reply is a mess.

You can view the module with the changes to the template html and template.xml files at:

http://hur6.rmsanswers.com

The repository is used by the Der Wirbelsturm menu item under the NEWS menu.