Configuring business card photos for the Sametime Browser Client

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

  1. In the Sametime Community Server, find the UserInfoConfig.xml file.
  2. Open the file with a text editor, and add the following tag to the Details section:
    <Detail Id="PhotoURL" FieldName="PhotoURL" Type="text/plain"/>
  3. Restart the Sametime Community Server.
  4. 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