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Hi, I'm trying to create a view of individuals that displays a 'Biography' and 'Photo' custom field for each in an unformatted list.

The biography is a note field so that works fine, however the photo is a file field and I can't get it to display properly.

I want to format the image using imagecache, but there doesn't seem to be the option to choose the preset when configuring the field display in Views. All I get is the file ID.

Is there a way of making it display the image? It doesn't even need to use imagecache if that's a problem - I just want a way of displaying the image.

Better still, a way of choosing the display like with the Drupal file field would be great - eg Display as imagecache image, as link to file, as data etc.

I'm using CiviCRM 4.02 and Drupal 7 with Views 3

The other option would be to customize the template file for that field and use the API to find the correct file reference for the image.

I know this thread is a little old, but I just did something like this myself.  I'm preparing a fundraising campaign that will make heavy use of Personal Campaign Pages, and I wanted to apply an imagecache effect to images uploaded by end-users.  To do this, I had to override CRM/Contribute/Page/PCPInfo.php.

The original image-related code looked like this:
<?php
        if ( $file_id = CRM_Core_DAO::getFieldValue('CRM_Core_DAO_EntityFile', $this->_id , 'file_id', 'entity_id') ) {
            $image = '<img src="'.CRM_Utils_System::url( 'civicrm/file', 
                                                         "reset=1&id=$file_id&eid={$this->_id}" ) . '" />';
            $this->assign('image', $image);
        }
?>

My modified code looks like this:
<?php
        if ( $file_id = CRM_Core_DAO::getFieldValue('CRM_Core_DAO_EntityFile', $this->_id , 'file_id', 'entity_id') ) {
            $params = array(
              'file_id' => $file_id
            );

            if ($image_path = helper_get_file_path($params)) {
              $image = theme('imagecache', 'pcp', $image_path );
              $this->assign('image', $image);
            }
        }

// helper function
function helper_get_file_path(array $params) {

  $file_id = NULL;
  $file_type_id = NULL;
  extract($params, EXTR_IF_EXISTS);

  require_once('api/v2/File.php');

  $filepath = NULL;
  
  if (is_numeric($file_id)) {
    $params = array(
      'id' => $file_id,
      'file_type_id' => $file_type_id
    );
    $file = civicrm_file_get($params);

    if (!array_key_exists('is_error', $file)) {
      $filepath = file_directory_path() . '/civicrm/custom/' . $file[$file_id]['uri'];
    }
  }
  
  return $filepath;
}?>

Ways my code could be improved:

• Use API v3 instead of v2.  My installation is still on CiviCRM 3.3, so API v3 is not available to me yet.
• There's probably a variable or a function I can use to determine the proper upload directory for these files rather than hardcoding in '/civicrm/custom/'.  I got a little lazy