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

[Ron Peterson]

Will this work apply to Sakai 2.8?  (I hope so.)

-Ron-

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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