Bulk import of user photos?

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  • 06/30/2013 at 8:29 pm #263979
    Jason
    Participant

    Hi,

    We have a Connections Pro directory up on our site – and just upgraded to use the new Slim Plus template.

    The contents of the directory are the result of a CSV import from an external system.

    I have a collection of over 300 photos for users in the directory that I would like to import into Connections. Images are jpegs with a common naming scheme of LastName<space>FirstName.jpg. Rather than doing a manual upload of each photo, I am wondering if anyone has already successfully achieved this through a script? I’m comfortable with writing scripts and SQL, but if someone already has a recipe for doing, hopefully I can save some time.

    Thanks!

    Jason

    07/01/2013 at 8:05 pm #264053
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Jason

    Sorry, there’s nothing available that I can give to save some time. However, you could potentially use the inc.processes.file as a jump off point.

    Off the top of my head you could use the processEntry function passing the update action and instead of checking for a file upload you could alter it to a server path and filename you want to import. The tricky part would be that you would need the entry ID for the update action to work. So maybe you could add that to the file name and parse it from the file name in the script or maybe do a sql query parsing the first and last name from the file name to get the entry ID.

    Hope that helps.

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