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JoeyMcDaniel
Mentor
11 years ago

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Hi All,

 

I'm tasked with recreating the board level navigation in our Lithium community.  I'm hoping to create much more visual and "tactile" feel by adding a large image for each thread.  The question is, how can I tie an image to each thread?  Are we able to customize the thread creation screen to include a "thread image" upload?  Should I programtically scrub each thread and grab the first image and display that?

 

I would love to hear your thoughts about how to create a board that looks like this:

 

art community - example.png

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  • VarunGrazitti's avatar
    VarunGrazitti
    Boss
    11 years ago

    Hi JoeyMcDaniel - While creating a thread, user does have an option of uploading an image as an attachment or insert into the post itself using RTE. To develop this, you need to consider following,

     

    1. Keep a default image in case a thread doesn't have any image.
    2. If the image is in the body, scan the body and extract it.(depends if you want to give priority to the img in body or in the attachment)
    3. if their is no image in body, check for the attachments, if the image isn't there either, go to step 1. 

     

    Let me know if this helps

  • JoeyMcDaniel's avatar
    JoeyMcDaniel
    Mentor
    11 years ago

    Thanks, this is helpful!

     

    What would be your suggestion on how to programatiically grab that first image?