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Apr 29, 2014 at 06:50 AM

Handling of pictures in SAP IDM 7.2 - Provisioning of picture attribute

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Ladies and gentleman,

I'd like to ask the attribute MX_USER_PICTURE is handled by the actual UI Frameworks.

We'd like to store the attribute information, ie. user picture by an automated provisioning task. I am able to load the picture for example as an BASE64 encoded JPEG or PNG image.

The goal is to provide it for several other directories as well. For example we'd like to use the picture stored in the Active Directory, in an adress book within Sharepoint and probably in others.

What I have is:

an URL for the user picture

the base64 encoded image

the binary representation of the image if needed

Does somebody know how to use the existing framework for this?

As I wrote in an answer in another thread I am trying to update the MX_USER_PICTURE from outside, meaning a custom class implementation. The trouble is I do not know which datatype the binary attribute is filled with. Uploading the picture from classical UI or via UI5 interface is working as a charm, but it seems not to be stored as a simple BASE64 encoding of a picture. It seams to me that the picture is stored in a special class and handed over?

I am simply not able to get the knowhow about the UI framework actually stores the picture in the attribute.

Thank you,

best regards,

Ingo Seeberg-Hinrichs