Vision2 RenderThumbs Explorer
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API Guide
On the RenderThumbs Explorer page, change the RequestType back to XML and click
Apply and test with
parameters
. Next, copy the ID of the first thumbnail into the StartingID parameter. Finally, edit the ServiceID
parameter so it is empty and click
Apply and test with parameters
. You will then get the updated XML as
displayed below:
<v2>
<result>OK</result>
<content
name="Archive 1"
contentarchive="/Archives/Archive1"
physicalpath="H:\vcContent\Archive1\"
infooffsetleft="20" infooffsettop="44" infoheight="519" infowidth="547"
videowidth="746"
ipaddress="localhost"
navigation="Content"
livethumbs="5">
<entry
type="category" name="Content" id="VideoCast_ContentRoot"
navigation="Content"
basecontenturl="http://WIN2K3SERVER/v2Services/Archives/Archive1"
pages="1"
cols="3" rows="3"
thumbwidth="252" thumbheight="173">
<entry
type="search" name="Search" id="Search"
contentpath=""
left="20" top="39" right="272" bottom="212" />
<entry
type="category"
name="Automatic Recordings"
id="VideoCast_DVRAutoRecordings"
contentpath="/1500/73/"
left="20" top="216" right="272" bottom="389" />
<entry
type="category" name="All Music Videos" id="2011016114162"
contentpath="/1500/25/"
left="20" top="393" right="272" bottom="566" />
<entry
type="category" name="Music by artist" id="20107397906"
contentpath="/1500/25/"
left="274" top="39" right="526" bottom="212" />
<entry
type="category" name="HD Content" id="20107241343953"
contentpath="/0000/77/"
left="528"
top="39"
right="780" bottom="212" />
</entry>
</content>
The values of interest returned by the XML are again the same as before. This time, however, the entry types
for the thumbnails are either ’category’ or ’search’. When a user selects the search thumbnail, you must handle
that slightly differently from any other thumbnail (see the
Handling Search Thumbnails
section on page 43 for
more information.)
