BlueSpiceAvatars

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Extension: BlueSpiceAvatars


Overview
Description: Provides generic and individual user pictures
State: stable Dependency: BlueSpice
Developer: HalloWelt License:

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Type: BlueSpice Category: Personalization
Edition: BlueSpice pro, BlueSpice free, BlueSpice Farm, BlueSpice Cloud

Technical Information

This information applies to BlueSpice 3 . Technical details for BlueSpice cloud can differ in some cases.

Requirements

  • MediaWiki: 1.31
  • BlueSpiceFoundation: 3.2

Integrates into

  • BlueSpiceAvatars
  • BlueSpicePrivacy

Special pages

Configuration

Name Value
AvatarsGenerator 'InstantAvatar'

User options

Name Value
bs-avatars-profileimage ''

API Modules

  • bs-avatars-tasks

Hooks

BlueSpiceAvatars handles profile images of wiki users. Initially, every user has an automatically generated avatar.


Usage / Features

This extension adds an option to each user's page to change his profile image. At the top of a user's page users can see their current profile image and the link "Userimage". Clicking on this link opens a dialog offering several options for setting a profile image:

  • upload a new image
  • link to an image that has already been uploaded
  • generate a new avatar

Technical information

Configuration

In the Config manager, the generator used to create the avatars can be changed. The options are

  • InstantAvatar - random, the image contains initials of the user's name.
  • Identicon - not random, is based on the user's IP address.

Rights (permissions)

This extension does not require any special rights. User must have "read" permission in order to change his profile image.

Requirements

This extension requires BlueSpiceFoundation. The upload function must be enabled on the wiki.

More info

For a detailed description, visit our help page.

Demo

You can generate an avatar for the testuser of our BlueSpice Demo.

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