A customer recently reached out and told me that Lotus Connections Profiles was only accepting images (or photos) in GIF and JPEG format. He had a need, however, to allow end users to upload their photos in PNG format.
You may be thinking that in order to allow this, I had to hack away the code, change some JSPs files, add a lot of Java code, and the such. Au contraire, my friend! Here's what I had to do to enable PNG photo uploads in Profiles:
- Go to <WAS_PROFILE_ROOT>/installedApps/<CELL_NAME>/Profiles.ear/peoplepages.war/WEB-INF
- Save a backup of validation.xml
- Open validation.xml with your favorite text editor
- Find this line (it's there twice):
<var-value>image/jpeg,image/pjpeg,image/gif</var-value>
and add the following lines after it:
<var-value>image/jpeg,image/pjpeg,image/gif,image/png,image/x-png</var-value>
- Remember, this line appears in two places so make sure you edit both lines
- Save the file
- Restart the system
Don't you love it when the architecture for a product allows you to do easy things like this ? I do..
P.S. In case you are wondering about the two MIME types.. Firefox uses image/png and IE uses image/x-png. Go figure 
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Tnx for the info. We installed Connections on a Citrix environment. Citrix had the so called webbooster on and this changes the mime-type of images (only in ie ofcourse :). So an ordinary image/gif becomes something like image/citrixgif. We had to turn this booster of, but this could have been another solution.
ReplyDeleteDo you also happen to know which file to adjust for the communities image mimetypes?
regards,
Pim
I've gone through the code and I haven't been able to find how to do this easily for Communities :(
ReplyDeleteHmmm, bummer.
ReplyDeleteTnx for looking into this though! Much appreciated
Pim