[Building Sakai] Official photos from a folder in Roster/Profile2

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Daniel,

We are doing some work in this area to allow filesystem access for official photos. Stay tuned.

cheers,
Steve



On 14/06/2012, at 5:34 PM, Daniel Merino wrote:

> Hi, Steve.
> 
> I'm not sure at all that this is what we need. The images that we want 
> to set in the folder are the official ones, not the ones that users can 
> upload by themselves. My idea is that these images are visible only to 
> teachers in the courses' Roster tool.
> 
> I can see that, beyond Profile2 1.4, this is allowed with:
> 
> profile2.official.image.enabled=true
> profile2.official.image.source=url/provider
> 
> but we are not allowed to change LDAP schema and we don't want to have 
> official images accessible through URL.
> 
> Looking the code of that Oxford's patch, it seems to me that has been 
> made for automatically uploading profile's photos, but not the official 
> ones, am I wrong?
> 
> I think that the old Profile's functionality to make a folder as 
> official photos source was very simple and straightforward, specially 
> for testing purposes.
> 
> We are not in a hurry and I still think that this could be a valuable 
> JIRA request. Do you have any technical objection to this approach? If 
> you don't; I will fill a JIRA later.
> 
> Thanks and best regards.
> 
> Steve Swinsburg escribió:
>> Hi Daniel,
>> 
>> File system storage is not supported in profile2, however Oxford have just filed this Jira, which will allow you to import them, if you can get a URL to them. 
>> 
>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-740
>> 
>> So with this feature, you could make the images web accessible temporarily, then import them into profile2.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On 13/06/2012, at 8:13, Daniel Merino <daniel.merino at unavarra.es> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi everybody.
>>> 
>>> Time ago, we did several tests to load the student's official photos 
>>> from a folder into Roster tool. Setting the old Profile tool, it worked 
>>> fine. But in the end we did not manage to use it in our production 
>>> environment due to bureaucratic reasons.
>>> 
>>> The old Profile's configuration needed the property 
>>> profile.photoRepositoryPath=<PATH> and some XML work.
>>> 
>>> Now we have got back in this subject and, looking Profile2, it seems 
>>> that the two options for loading official photos are from URLs and from 
>>> LDAP. We can't use none of these options.
>>> 
>>> So my question is: is it possible to use a folder containing official 
>>> photos in Profile2/Roster? If it is not, should I fill a JIRA with this 
>>> demand?
>>> 
>>> Thanks and best regards.
>>> -- 
>>> Daniel Merino Echeverría
>>> daniel.merino at unavarra.es
>>> Gestor de teleformación - Centro Superior de Innovación Educativa.
>>> Tfno: 948-168489 - Universidad Pública de Navarra.
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> 
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> Daniel Merino Echeverría
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