Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceAvatars

What is BlueSpiceAvatars?

BlueSpiceAvatars handles profile images of wiki users. Every user has an automatically generated avatar created or can upload their personal image.

Where to find Avatars?

User's profile image will appar throughout the wiki on the pages that user has contributed to, or have otherwise been involved with. Mainly, user profile image will be shown in the top right corner, if the user is logged in. Clicking this image will open user's personal menu, while clicking the user profile image anywhere else, through the wiki, will lead to user's profile page.

Changing profile image

There are two ways for users to change their profile image.

• By going to "Preferences" in user's personal menu and typing a valid name of an image that is upload to the wiki in "User image" field. After saving the settings, user image will be changed.

• By going to user's profile page (recommended). User's profile page can be reached from user's personal menu, by clicking on "My profile", or directly navigating to "User:{username}" page.

Once there click on the "menu" symbol right of the profile image and navigate to "User image" in the menu.

This will open a dialog where user can:

• Upload new picture
• Choose existing picture from the wiki or an URL
• Generate new automatic Avatar

Upon clicking on this link, a dialog window will pop up, offering several options for setting the profile picture.

Following options are available:

Upload your own profile picture:
You can select an image from your computer, upload it and set it to your profile.  To do this, first click on "Browse" to select the image and then on "Upload" to upload it.

Choose an image already existing on the wiki or from the internet:

Enter the name of the image already uploaded to the wiki or the URL of any publicly accessible image and click "Save".

 Generate an avatar:
Click "Generate new avatar" to generate and assign an automatic avatar to your profile. The type of avatar generated depends on the generator selected in the global wiki settings by the administrator.

Settings

Settings in ConfigManager

Configuration for this extension is located in BlueSpiceConfigManager under the section for BlueSpiceAvatars. Here default generator for automatic creation of Avatars can be changed. Availble generators are:

• InstantAvatar (default)
• Identicon

See also

Our reference page.