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

[Adrian Fish]

I'll be making a few commits today to enable the official pictures override
in Roster2. Then we'll start looking at the filestore stuff that you, Seth
and others have been talking about.

Cheers,
Adrian.

On 21 June 2012 08:39, Daniel Merino <daniel.merino at unavarra.es> wrote:

> 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
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