how to use drupal views to access civicrm contact's image

[kennedy]

How can I use views in drupal to access civicrm contact's image instead of the image url?
Is there also any way to access attachments in civicrm using views in drupal?

[petednz]

Can you pls detail what you have already tried so we don't spend time explaining about eggs and sucking ;-)

[kennedy]

OK, I have a view and i wish to list some contact details from my civicrm db with their pictures. I have created a view of type civicrm contacts, but the image field shows but the image url. I will like to display the contact's image instead alongside his/her contacts details.

Also i have some customs fields in civicrm for file attachment, is there anyway i can display the files using views?

thank you in advance!

[jseroskie]

I have the same problem. I would like to display contact images in a Drupal view.... I get only the URL to the image when using a custom field of FILE type.

"I have a view and i wish to list some contact details from my civicrm db with their pictures. I have created a view of type civicrm contacts, but the image field shows but the image url. I will like to display the contact's image instead alongside his/her contacts details."

[petednz]

have you tried anything on the Field such as using Rewrite Results on Image URL field and set the text to eg
<img src="[image_URL]">

[kennedy]

thanks Pete!

[groston]

Pete's advice, as usual is spot on.

One thing that threw me, but luckily not for too terribly long, is that with this approach, one does not have access to the Drupal Image Style functionality. This concerned me as I need to display images, which are natively different sizes, as being the same approximate size.

What I found is that the following works: <img src="[image_URL]" width="250 px">

[vantuykom]

I can not display the image this way, there is a permission issue but my permissions allow everyone to access uploaded files...

What am I doing wrong?

[petednz]

What I found is that the following works: <img src="[image_URL]" width="250 px">

I concur in terms of using width approach v using 'style'. Thanks for posting this back

[zkrebs]

It would be great if CiviCRM could store images that linked into Drupal image styles functionality.

What if I want to do a responsive slideshow of images for the organizations in my DB?
I guess I could store the Pictures as a Drupal node, link the node to the Civi record (civicrm entity?) and then have the view(s) display them?

Lots of thoughts.

[linkx]

Looks like something like this is enabled with 4.6.0

[petednz]

care to flesh out your comment a bit more for others (and my) benefit?

[Chris Burgess]

@Pete - in 4.6.x thanks to CRM-14491 Add civicrm_handler_field_contact_image to Views implementation, CiviCRM images are exposed to Views natively (but note StackOverflow question Problems with the new (4.6.0) Drupal views image handler for CiviCRM contact images which suggests there may be issues with it).

@kennedy, @groston - Using Drupal image styles / imagecache was discussed recently in How to use Drupal image styles with a civicrm custom field (type file), but the responses there probably are written before the addition of CiviCRM image URLs in 4.6.0, and IDK if the images are natively available for use with image styles yet.