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I very recently overheard a customer trying to figure out how to bypass the preview carousel view in the Vault preview tab, in favor of directly loading a file visualization attachment (dwf), like we did in the olden days, and thought I would share this as a quick tip for users who don't like the carousel as much as me.
But not so fast.
I wrote a blog on the carousel view in 2014 here, in my post "Taking a Carousel Ride", which goes through some of the upside to the carousel view, first and foremost that we are able to improve refresh speed and general performance when selecting a file that has the view tab already selected, the fact we can do a quick visual check on the preview thumbnail before committing to loading a view as well as having a simple method to move through preview versions or revisions. I would say all in all though this may add another click to your preview workflow its by and large all good stuff.
If however you have carefully considered all this and still want a direct preview load, it can be done through your explorer options.
Under the Tools menu click on options to load the options dialog. As we see below the user here has a button to configure the document previewers. Open this up and you will see by default all previewers are disabled.
Going down the list though we can start to enable these as required and by enabling the DWF(x) previewer this will attempt to directly load the DWF(x) into your preview window for the selected file.
The one drawback of course here is if you are not diligently creating your visualization attachments on check-in, load or state change and there is no visualization attachment this will revert to the "Unable to View" message so we can open or update from here - but in the presence of your DWF(x) we will load this directly into the preview tab.
So there you have it, a simple tip to go back to the way things were – I am still a big fan of carousels but its nice to have options.
-Allan
