Student photos to Raiser's Edge?

Carlene Johnson

Are any of you populating the RE constituent record with the student's photo from CORE? If so, what is you mechanism for doing so?

Is there an “automatic” way of doing this? Could Power Automate do this? Would this be something the “Common Record Engine” might do once that is rolled out?

Brian Gray

@Carlene Johnson - We don’t transfer student photos to RE, so I don’t know if there is an automated way to do so. I do use the photos for other purposes outside the LMS. I can extract them as needed.

On the user record (Core > People finder), right-click on the photo and choose Copy image address. Paste the URL into a file for reference.

This URL gives you the base information you need to access all of your users’ images.

https://bbk12e1-cdn.myschoolcdn.com/ftpimages/580/user/large_user582a_aa62_114.jpg?resize=200,200

The other info you need is the photo file names matched to the user’s name and User ID. You can get that from an advanced list. Each user has a large photo and a thumbnail photo that you can access.

You can insert the user's photo file names into the URL, add the dimensions you want, and then do what you need to with the URL. I have a PHP program that will download each photo in a list and save it to a file. I also use the constructed URLs directly on web pages.

Carlene Johnson

@Brian Gray thank you so much for your thoughtful and detailed response. I always appreciate good documentation!

I may reach out to further talk through a project we are considering for which I am struggling to figure out a smooth process. I suspect your insight will be helpful. Thanks again!