How to Set Up Type Thumbnails

Some files have no preview of their own, such as archives, spreadsheets, audio files and fonts. These show a file type icon instead. You can replace that built-in icon with your own image, for example one in your brand colours.

Steps to Add a Type Thumbnail

1. Go to App Setup > Asset Settings and choose Type thumbnails in the Tab dropdown.
2. Click Add thumbnail.
3. Click Choose image and select the image to use.
4. Set the Background colour shown behind the image.
5. Optionally, give it a Name for your own reference.
6. In File extensions, enter the extensions it should stand for, separated by commas, for example zip, rar, 7z.
7. Click Save.

Checking How It Looks

Type an extension in the Extension box at the top of the tab. The preview shows the thumbnail in a List row, a Small grid and a Large grid, as users will see it.

Editing or Removing a Type Thumbnail

• To change it, click Edit on its card, make your changes and click Save.
• To remove it, click the bin icon on its card. Files of that type go back to the built-in icon.

Tips

• Changes apply straight away, including to files that are already in the library.
• Files that already have a preview, like images, videos and most PDFs, keep their own thumbnail.
• Files of a type you haven't added keep the built-in icon.