Membership vCards with Photos
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:16 pm
My plea still stands for the developers to include a checkbox or something for adding photos into the vCard export that is now available:
http://tech.lds.org/forum/showthread.ph ... #post17698
In the meantime...
I've started writing a little .NET application that will be able to authenticate with LUWS using user-entered credentials and scrape the photos off of the user's local unit Membership Directory. Then the application will put the binary photo data in the appropriate vCards.
The next step (for Outlook users) is to split the one vCard file into separate files. I wrote a little piece of code in about 10 minutes that does this, which I may or may not include the above application's functionality. However, I found a blog post where a user wrote some very helpful VBScripts, one of which does this. I will discuss point you to this in the next paragraph.
So there is one problem with importing these vCards with embedded photos into Outlook (or Windows Contacts, as found in Vista if you don't have Outlook): this problem is that every test I have run as failed to import the picture in the vCard into Outlook. Apparently Outlook doesn't look for the "PHOTO" property or something. So I found the following blog post where somebody created a fix that I am going to try out:
*EDIT: I found out this only works for getting vCards with Photos into Exchange Server (more of an enterprise use than a personal, home use). Read the next post for more info.*
http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2005/09/imp ... es-to.html
He gives a zip file to download with VBScripts in them which I have attached to this post (one of these scripts can do the vCard splitting from one .vcf file to separate .vcf files). In his blog post, he explains how to configure and use the scripts on your computer.
I will keep this thread posted on how my application is going and my quest to get the Ward Photos on my phone (and hopefully your phone/PDA).
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http://tech.lds.org/forum/showthread.ph ... #post17698
In the meantime...
I've started writing a little .NET application that will be able to authenticate with LUWS using user-entered credentials and scrape the photos off of the user's local unit Membership Directory. Then the application will put the binary photo data in the appropriate vCards.
The next step (for Outlook users) is to split the one vCard file into separate files. I wrote a little piece of code in about 10 minutes that does this, which I may or may not include the above application's functionality. However, I found a blog post where a user wrote some very helpful VBScripts, one of which does this. I will discuss point you to this in the next paragraph.
So there is one problem with importing these vCards with embedded photos into Outlook (or Windows Contacts, as found in Vista if you don't have Outlook): this problem is that every test I have run as failed to import the picture in the vCard into Outlook. Apparently Outlook doesn't look for the "PHOTO" property or something. So I found the following blog post where somebody created a fix that I am going to try out:
*EDIT: I found out this only works for getting vCards with Photos into Exchange Server (more of an enterprise use than a personal, home use). Read the next post for more info.*
http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2005/09/imp ... es-to.html
He gives a zip file to download with VBScripts in them which I have attached to this post (one of these scripts can do the vCard splitting from one .vcf file to separate .vcf files). In his blog post, he explains how to configure and use the scripts on your computer.
I will keep this thread posted on how my application is going and my quest to get the Ward Photos on my phone (and hopefully your phone/PDA).
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