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

[Daniel Merino]

Thanks, Steve.

Currently I'm watching https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-682 . I 
think that this is the related JIRA, isn't it?

Best regards.

Steve Swinsburg escribió:
> 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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Daniel Merino Echeverría
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Gestor de teleformación - Centro Superior de Innovación Educativa.
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