[OPEN-ILS-DEV] How to upload patron photos

[Sivagaami Shanmugam]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your quick response. Will give it a try. Wish it works.

Thanks & Regards,
Shiva

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com>wrote:

> > I need help from you. I need to upload photos of the patron and staffs. I
> > did see a photo column for storing image url in the DB when checked the
> > Evergreen DB schema but I dont find an option to do it in the staff
> client.
> > After searching a while i saw in some link that Evergreen patron photo
> > upload is not possible. So wanted to know if its possible or not. If yes,
> > how should i go with it.
>
> Shiva, the client should already be set to show a user photo if the
> photo_url field is populated, but you're right, there's no mechanism
> for uploading and managing such images.  You can expose the field in
> the patron editor, and once you do that, it may be easier to just use
> a separate application to act as an image repository and get URL's
> from it.
>
> For the editor, in register_table.tt2, find
>
> <tr fmclass='au' fmfield='other_phone'/>
>
> and below it, add
>
> <tr fmclass='au' fmfield='photo_url'/>
>
> I think that should be it as far as the editor goes.
>
> --
> Jason Etheridge
>  | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
>  | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
>  | email:  jason at esilibrary.com
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>
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