Follow these steps to configure the business card photo
that displays for users who chat using the IBM® Sametime® Browser
Client.
Before you begin
Enable the PhotoURL attribute in your
LDAP directory. Refer to the documentation for your LDAP directory.
Photos must be less than 45 KB (recommended: 10 KB) and must be of
the .jpg or .gif file type.
About this task
The PhotoURL attribute needs to contain the web repository
URL for the user photo. There needs to be a separate web repository
that contains photos of all users intending to use the Sametime Browser Client.Note: Photo
information that renders in the Sametime Connect Client
is not used in the Sametime Browser
Client.
Procedure
- In the Sametime Community
Server, find the UserInfoConfig.xml file.
- Open the file with a text editor, and add the following
tag to the Details section:
<Detail Id="PhotoURL" FieldName="PhotoURL" Type="text/plain"/>
- Restart the Sametime Community
Server.
- Upload user photos into a web server repository, so that
users can access the photos using a URL.
For example: http://iddirectory.mycompany.com/userphoto/mybuscardpic.jpg