Morning all,

Can anyone suggest a third party tool or an easy to customise manner to allow all SharePoint search results to be shown as thumbnails.  I've seen the previous threads that show how to code and release this, but the perspective I've been asked to consider is one of avoiding development if possible.

I've googled with no serious results and have checked out web part specialists such as Bamboo but I can't seem to find anything.  Whilst I'm sure there's something I can settle on, I'd like to ask the SharePoint community if they know anything that will "Thumbnail" SharePoint search results, or if it will only be a code solution.

Hi Steven,

 

Based on my research, you can refer to the following article to achieve your idea.

 

http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/matthew/archive/2008/08/28/sharepoint-image-search-part-1.aspx

 

Customizing Microsoft SharePoint search to display thumbnails of slides from slide library

http://lokendrapanwar.wordpress.com/

 

In addition, you can look into the following third party software:

 

Extend powerful SharePoint search capabilities with MediaRich metadata support to both read and write industry standard image and video metadata and to provide thumbnail previews in your search results of the most popular file formats. Preview and play any video file if the appropriate player is installed.

 

http://www.equilibrium.com/eq_software/mediarich_for_sharepoint/features/

 

Hope this is helpful to you.

 

Rock Wang

Hi Steven,

With some configurations in the crawl and editing the xsl , you would be able to see the thumbnails. Please take a look at the simple example.

https://mwiedemeyer.de/blog/post/Show-thumbnail-image-of-JPGs-within-SharePoint-search-results

Regards,

Rajesh

http://sharepointr.blogspot.sg/

• Proposed as answer by Ganesan Rajesh Kumar 15 hours 7 minutes ago