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I was trying to implement Flickr ECL, using extension and configured in my Tridion.

Images and Albums are reflecting in Tridion, but thumbnail images are not working properly, I see a blank image.

On Folder View

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ECL Component View

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I have debug on GetThumbnailImage method it is working fine, cleared cache many times but still I was getting blank.

Update:

I tried to inspect img(blank) in Component view, it was pointing to http://localhost/WebUI/Editors/Base/icon.png?target=view&maxwidth=320&maxheight=200&uri=ecl%3A9-flickr-38587920765_b15971826b_72157690242528371-img-file&modified=20180104062538&state=ecl%3AFile.L0P0

GetThumbnailImage code

public byte[] GetThumbnailImage(IEclUri eclUri, int maxWidth, int maxHeight)
{
    // only return thumbnails for the actual photos
    if (eclUri.ItemType == EclItemTypes.File && eclUri.SubType == "img")
    {
        // format of photo item id: [flickr photo id]_[flickr photo secret]_[flickr photo set id]
        string[] ids = eclUri.ItemId.Split('_');
        FlickrInfo photo = Provider.Flickr.GetPhotoInfo(ids[0], ids[1], ids[2]);

        WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
        byte[] thumbnailData = webClient.DownloadData(Flickr.GetPhotoUrl(photo, maxWidth));
        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(thumbnailData, false))
        {
            return Provider.HostServices.CreateThumbnailImage(maxWidth, maxHeight, ms, Flickr.MaxWidth, Flickr.MaxHeight, null);
        }
    }
    return null;
}
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    I added a link to my Flickr ECL repository (assuming you are talking about that, if not, please edit and update to the one you are talking about). Can you edit your question and tag the version of Tridion you are using, that might be beneficial for getting correct answers. Also you mention everything is working fine, does that mean when you publish you are getting the Flickr image on your website correctly? Jan 4, 2018 at 10:00
  • Hi Bart, I havent published anything yet, am at very initial stage of importing from flickr . I have edited my question
    – Kumar_diru
    Jan 4, 2018 at 11:04
  • If you can, please provide code snippet of GetThumbnailImage(IEclUri eclUri, int maxWidth, int maxHeight) method? I think your implementation of CreateThumbnailImage() is not returning correct bytes of thumbnails. I guess if you debug the code on these you will get to know what you are missing. Jan 4, 2018 at 12:23
  • If you are debugging does Flickr.GetPhotoUrl(photo, maxWidth) (line 111 of github.com/bkoopman/sdl-tridion-world/blob/master/…) return a visible URL of a photo? Jan 4, 2018 at 13:02
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    It will be helpful to confirm if Windows updates (including KB4043769) have been installed on this server. Also, can try deploying another ECL extension to verify if the thumbnail issue also happens in the other extension. If so, it may well be a network/platform issue as opposed to an ECL configuration issue.
    – Terry Kim
    Jan 11, 2018 at 15:35

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I want to start by saying that this doesn't have to be only code/tridion issue. For example, we had similar issue with our thumbnail icons where they weren't downloaded also from media manager. In our case, we observed that thumbnails aren't downloaded even with correct connection to Media Manager. We were debugging this for days with SDL customer support, only to find out that there was firewall issue. :) Some of the traffic was blocked by firewall, so thumbnails weren't downloaded in correct folder in tridion. So please try to investigate with Infra team if there is some network blockage. This might fix the problem.

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