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Tim_Beard's avatar
Tim_Beard
Ideator I
6 years ago

How to import thumbnail images for parts using batch loader?

I've worked out how to import all other part data, including related item types such as xproperties I'm stuck on getting the thumbnail images imported, however, as "thumbnail" is just a property of...
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AngelaIp's avatar
AngelaIp
Ideator I
6 years ago

Do you use a lot of identical thumbnails or are they all unique?

Thumbnails in the "customer" folder are useful when they shall be reused very very often. Then you just can dump them there and import the link. When you have a lot of "unique" thumbnails, these are better located in the Vault or subsection in the customer folder, cause people simple would get lost when searching for the commonly used images. 

Using a mixed approach is nothing uncommon for images.