Does FileManager display thumbnail images?

[Brian]

I'm very interested in this new FileManager to potentially navigate through thousands of photographs stored on Azure Blobs.  

1) Will the Preview Pane display thumbnails of images?  Or just glyphs of the file types?

2) Anyone tried it with Azure Blobs yet?  There is a rudimentary folder structure possible, but I've not tried it yet.  Wondering if anyone else has.

[Ivan Danchev]

Hello Brian,

We have no immediate plans to implement thumbnails for images in the preview pane, but this a valid suggestion, so we would encourage you to log it as a feature request in our Feedback Portal. If the community is interested in this functionality, we will consider it for one of the upcoming releases.

As for Azure Blobs, we haven't tested the FileManager with it.

As a UI component that communicates with the server through JSON the FileManager will display data, as long as the service returns JSON that contains the fields the component expects (see below). If the service is capable of returning Azure Blob data in this format it will be displayed by the FileManager.

Here's an exemplary content from the response from a "Read" endpoint:

[{
    "Name": "ImageJPEG2",
    "Size": 4192,
    "Path": "ImageJPEG2.jpg",
    "Extension": ".jpg",
    "IsDirectory": false,
    "HasDirectories": false,
    "Created": "2020-02-18T13:22:06.4905455+00:00",
    "CreatedUtc": "2020-02-18T13:22:06.4905455Z",
    "Modified": "2020-02-18T13:22:06.5061397+00:00",
    "ModifiedUtc": "2020-02-18T13:22:06.5061397Z"
}, {
    "Name": "Documents",
    "Size": 0,
    "Path": "Documents",
    "Extension": "",
    "IsDirectory": true,
    "HasDirectories": true,
    "Created": "2020-02-03T10:15:01.513276+00:00",
    "CreatedUtc": "2020-02-03T10:15:01.513276Z",
    "Modified": "2020-02-18T12:12:31.2010218+00:00",
    "ModifiedUtc": "2020-02-18T12:12:31.2010218Z"
}, {
    "Name": "New Folder",
    "Size": 0,
    "Path": "New Folder",
    "Extension": "",
    "IsDirectory": true,
    "HasDirectories": false,
    "Created": "2020-02-16T18:32:54.0930701+00:00",
    "CreatedUtc": "2020-02-16T18:32:54.0930701Z",
    "Modified": "2020-02-16T18:32:54.0930701+00:00",
    "ModifiedUtc": "2020-02-16T18:32:54.0930701Z"
}]

Note that the FileManager does not operate with ids, and where a file or folder will be displayed  is determined by the Path field value.

Regards,
Ivan Danchev
Progress Telerik