Hiding User Photographs in the User Details iView 

Use

If no user photograph has been uploaded to the User Details iView, the system displays only a placeholder for the photograph. If you do not plan to display user photographs in your company, you can hide the photograph placeholder. To do this, you require a new User Details iView that you have configured accordingly.

Procedure

To make a User Details iView without photograph available in the portal, proceed as follows:

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       1.      Create a new User Details iView and switch off the display of photographs:

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                            a.      In the portal catalog, choose New from PAR ® iView in a folder of your choice.

You reach step one of the iView wizard.

                            b.      Choose the portal archive com.sap.netweaver.kmc.people
and choose Continue to proceed to step two of the iView wizard.

                            c.      Choose the portal component PeopleDetails
and choose Continue to proceed to step three of the iView wizard.

                            d.      Enter the general properties for the iView (for example, ID userDetailsWOphoto) and choose Continue to proceed to step four of the iView wizard.

                            e.      Choose Finish.

                              f.      Choose the next step Open Object for Editing and choose OK to confirm your selection.

                            g.      In the properties editor, choose the property category Display All.

                            h.      Set the Show Photo in Users Detail Dialog option to No.

                              i.      Save the properties for the iView.

       2.      Prepare the iView for use in URLs.

                            a.      In the portal catalog, click the name of the newly-created User Details iView. (In the quick info area, the iView ID appears).

                            b.      Copy the complete iView ID from the quick info area to any text editor.

                            c.      In the ID, replace the characters “:” and “/” as follows:
: = !3a
/ = !2f
For example:
You change the ID pcd:portal_content/new_iViews/userDetailsWOPhoto to pcd!3aportal_content!2fnew_iViews!2fuserDetailsWOPhoto

       3.      Assign the iView ID to the link to the User Details iView.

                            a.      Choose System Administration ® System Configuration ® Knowledge Management ® Collaboration ® Properties ® Link Commands.

                            b.      Highlight the peopleDetailsLink command and choose Edit.

                            c.      Copy the prepared ID from your text editor to the reference field.
Warning: In the reference field, enter portal: in front of the ID, for example
portal:pcd!3aportal_content!2fnew_iViews!2fuserDetailsWOPhoto.
Make sure that you do not change the capitalization within the ID.

                            d.      Choose OK.

Result

In the portal, the new User Details iView without photograph appears.

Since the configuration data is read from the cache memory at certain intervals, it may take a few minutes until you can use the new User Details iView in the portal.