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Kai_Kircher's avatar
Kai_Kircher
Ideator I
4 years ago
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Show part thumbnail onmouseover in search or relationship grid

So let's say I have a list of parts in a view. Whether that's the BOM view of a specific assembly, or the default search for parts, filtered by some criteria such as "engines," either way this is a r...
  • AngelaIp's avatar
    AngelaIp
    4 years ago

    Hi Kai!

    I assume you are looking for something like this?

    This image is from Innovator 11, so don´t be confused by the styling. 

    The shown image was the result of the experimental approach discussed in this post:
    https://community.aras.com/f/development/3987/using-dijit-tooltip-in-relationship-grid-how-to-get-connectid

    Main obstacle till today is the Method call itself. I never found a reliable way to call the function on Form load.

    But don´t be to focused on the hovering. There is maybe still a far bigger obstacle to solve.

    Images in the grid are one of the best improvements you can make in your Innovator. People just LOVE them and they are such a huge help!
    But you will notice that hardly any customer use them. Isn´t that strange? 

    Reason: In the past images in the grid caused performance issues. If you are a subscriber, maybe you can ask Aras if this one was improved in any of the newer version. I am not up-to-date regarding this topic, cause I use a very custom workaround.

    Nevertheless, I am still interested in finding a solution for the hovering and improved images handling at all. So I am happy about anyone that joins this topic.

  • Riaan_H's avatar
    Riaan_H
    3 years ago

    Hi Kai and Angela,

    There is a no code solution, but it is Chrome based, and needs to be installed by the user.

    It is a Chrome extension called "Imagus". When installed and activated in your Chrome it will display the full size image upon hover over any image like a thumbnail in a grid.

    Obviously a pain to roll-out, but it just works.

    Kind regards

AngelaIp's avatar
AngelaIp
Ideator I
4 years ago

Hi Kai!

I assume you are looking for something like this?

This image is from Innovator 11, so don´t be confused by the styling. 

The shown image was the result of the experimental approach discussed in this post:
https://community.aras.com/f/development/3987/using-dijit-tooltip-in-relationship-grid-how-to-get-connectid

Main obstacle till today is the Method call itself. I never found a reliable way to call the function on Form load.

But don´t be to focused on the hovering. There is maybe still a far bigger obstacle to solve.

Images in the grid are one of the best improvements you can make in your Innovator. People just LOVE them and they are such a huge help!
But you will notice that hardly any customer use them. Isn´t that strange? 

Reason: In the past images in the grid caused performance issues. If you are a subscriber, maybe you can ask Aras if this one was improved in any of the newer version. I am not up-to-date regarding this topic, cause I use a very custom workaround.

Nevertheless, I am still interested in finding a solution for the hovering and improved images handling at all. So I am happy about anyone that joins this topic.

  • Kai_Kircher's avatar
    Kai_Kircher
    Ideator I
    4 years ago

    A response from the legend herself! That's exactly what I'm looking for, Angela, thank you! I'll play around with it and see what I can get working (the on hover isn't too important, a cell or row select to display the tooltip would work just as well).

    And yeah, I'm a subscriber, so once I get some testing done, I'll try to reach out to Aras support about performance if what I end up with isn't acceptable.

    Thanks again!

    • AngelaIp's avatar
      AngelaIp
      Ideator I
      4 years ago

      Thanks for the credits! :D Not sure if I am really a legend. I just had spend too much time to solve tasks like the one shown here out of the pure reason of "I want to have that feature, NOW".

      Have you seen the "Properties pane" preview pane? This at least allows some basic preview of the images in the grid.

      But images directly inside the grids are of course offer more benefits.

      In Innovator 12 the stylesheet is not perfect for the images (length/height ratio wrong). But this one can be fixed in the codetree. I also changed the stylesheet to make the images as big as possible in the grid. Just play around with the browser debugger until you get the perfect look&feel. 

      That´s still the easy part. But performance will be the hard one. You will not notice any problems while your are testing this. But performance suddenly becomes a huge problem as soon you have many "vaulted" images and many users display them. Reason: In the past each single displayed image opens a vault connection. To many connections -> Innovator is not usable anymore. Not sure how the situation is today.

      Additional hovering still would be cool, but it´s not a must have. I think it´s better to achieve with the latest Innovator versions, cause CUI und the editable grid added more functions to directly interact with the grid.

      Good luck! ;-)