URL Preview

URL preview allows users decide quickly whether to follow a link by displaying a thumbnail preview for URLs.

Thumbnails are renderings of rich metadata to point to accessible HTML resources in microblog messages in the Activity Stream.

URL preview supports the following OpenGraph metadata:

• Title

• Description

• An image representation of the resource

Metadata is obtained from the following contexts:

• User input focus (as the user types the url in the microblog message)

• Activity Stream (events about microblogs)

• Status Updates

• Configure URL preview
  Edit og-config.xml in the LotusConnections-Config directory to configure both the oEmbed and thumbnail end-points. oEmbed returns the metadata associated with a URL passed in input.

• URL preview security
  Restrict URLs accessible by the oEmbed and image proxy service, and fine-tune the maximum number of HTTP Connections.

Parent topic:
Administer common areas