Mmmm … the application I wrote is custom made for our own internal HR database and I’m not authorized to share that particular software.

Anyway, it’s so “specific” to us that I’d be really surprised if it would work in any other company.

But … I’ll probably write another article later with snippets of code to help out if you feel like coding something for your own environment.

In the meantime, here’s the “overall” logic …

1. Get a hold of the selected document (in LotusScript of course).
2. Check for an attachment in the rich-text field for the employee picture.
3. Create a DXLExporter object and make it export all the pictures out of the selected documents to a folder on the hard drive.
4. Verify that there is a picture that was exported in the folder of the hard drive.
5. Launch a command to call IrfanView from the command line and resize the picture to a 100xwhatever picture (i.e. keep the aspect ratio).
6. Wait 5 seconds (to give IrfanView enough time to resize the evil 10 megapixel that was attached in the rich-text field).
7. Check to make sure that the resized file exists.
8. Check if it’s under 32k.
9. If it’s under 32k, find the person doc of the employee in the Domino Directory.
10. Once I have the person doc of the employee in the Domino Directory, check for a jpgPhoto field … delete it if it exists.
11. Load the file with the resized picture byte-by-byte in an array with a NotesStream object.
12. Use the “ReplaceItemValueCustomDataBytes” method of the NotesDocument class to write the array of bytes into the jpgPhoto field.
13. That’s it … that’s all folks … do some house cleaning (like removing the 2 files from the folder on the hard drive).

I hope it helps you …

The picture got into his address book because he’s a roaming user … so it syncs up with his BlackBerry automatically.

I guess the other sales rep at the sales meeting thought it would be funny to add a picture of the other guy to his very own entry. It’s too bad I had to remove the picture of the sales rep because he had one of those “don’t you dare take my picture” expression … he was actually probably saying exactly that when the picture was taken … but after talking with Patrick about it, he asked me to make sure our sales rep picture wasn’t on this blog. Oh well.

Anyhow …Thanks for your comment!