How do I add profile pictures?

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Jared Monk

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Sep 24, 2015, 3:19:36 PM9/24/15
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I looked at this thread on this google forum and they said that I could update profile pictures. I am not able to find the command to update profile pictures on the Wiki. Has the feature been removed? 

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Ross Scroggs

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Sep 24, 2015, 5:06:50 PM9/24/15
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Jared,

The basic command is:
    gam user <UserEmail> update photo <FileName>
But you probably want to update a bunch of users; how you proceed is based on whether the <FileName> can be derived from <UserEmail>.
Suppose your email addresses are of the form first...@bar.com and the photos are c:\Photos\first.last.jpg.
You have a CSV file UserList.csv with a column labelled UserEmail that contains the email addresses.
    gam csv UserList.csv gam user ~UserEmail update photo c:\Photos\#username#.jpg
Given the address first...@bar.com, the following substitutions are available in the string following the photo argument:
#user# and #email# are equivalent, both are replaced by the full email address, first...@bar.com
#username# is replaced by the portion of the email address preceding the @, first.last in this case.
If the <FileName> can not be derived from the <UserEmail>, then you need two columns in the CSV file, UserEmail and UserPhoto.
    gam csv UserList.csv gam user ~UserEmail update photo ~UserPhoto

Ross

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Jared Monk <jm...@natmedtrans.com> wrote:
I looked at this thread on this google forum and they said that I could update profile pictures. I am not able to find the command to update profile pictures on the Wiki. Has the feature been removed? 

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Jared Monk

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Sep 25, 2015, 1:48:53 AM9/25/15
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Thank you for this. This made updating photos super easy. 


On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 3:06:50 PM UTC-6, Ross Scroggs wrote:
Jared,

The basic command is:
    gam user <UserEmail> update photo <FileName>
But you probably want to update a bunch of users; how you proceed is based on whether the <FileName> can be derived from <UserEmail>.
Suppose your email addresses are of the form first...@bar.com and the photos are c:\Photos\first.last.jpg.
You have a CSV file UserList.csv with a column labelled UserEmail that contains the email addresses.
    gam csv UserList.csv gam user ~UserEmail update photo c:\Photos\#username#.jpg
Given the address first...@bar.com, the following substitutions are available in the string following the photo argument:
#user# and #email# are equivalent, both are replaced by the full email address, first...@bar.com
#username# is replaced by the portion of the email address preceding the @, first.last in this case.
If the <FileName> can not be derived from the <UserEmail>, then you need two columns in the CSV file, UserEmail and UserPhoto.
    gam csv UserList.csv gam user ~UserEmail update photo ~UserPhoto

Ross
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Jared Monk <jm...@natmedtrans.com> wrote:
I looked at this thread on this google forum and they said that I could update profile pictures. I am not able to find the command to update profile pictures on the Wiki. Has the feature been removed? 

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Carl Sundermann

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Sep 28, 2015, 9:24:39 AM9/28/15
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I was checking this out the other day, and I have a question about this...  When I was working with it, it only appeared to update the photo next to the email, not the entire G+ profile pic.  Could anyone point me to a reference as to what the differences are between the two?  Specifically, my questions are:
1) Does updating the email pic only make it a public picture?
2) Is there a way to only show the picture to other members of our domain?
3) Is there really any difference between G+ and email pictures?  Should I care that it's not updating the G+ photo?

Thanks for any info you have.

Carl


On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 12:48:53 AM UTC-5, Jared Monk wrote:
Thank you for this. This made updating photos super easy. 

On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 3:06:50 PM UTC-6, Ross Scroggs wrote:
Jared,

The basic command is:
    gam user <UserEmail> update photo <FileName>
But you probably want to update a bunch of users; how you proceed is based on whether the <FileName> can be derived from <UserEmail>.
Suppose your email addresses are of the form first...@bar.com and the photos are c:\Photos\first.last.jpg.
You have a CSV file UserList.csv with a column labelled UserEmail that contains the email addresses.
    gam csv UserList.csv gam user ~UserEmail update photo c:\Photos\#username#.jpg
Given the address first...@bar.com, the following substitutions are available in the string following the photo argument:
#user# and #email# are equivalent, both are replaced by the full email address, first...@bar.com
#username# is replaced by the portion of the email address preceding the @, first.last in this case.
If the <FileName> can not be derived from the <UserEmail>, then you need two columns in the CSV file, UserEmail and UserPhoto.
    gam csv UserList.csv gam user ~UserEmail update photo ~UserPhoto

Ross
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Jared Monk <jm...@natmedtrans.com> wrote:
I looked at this thread on this google forum and they said that I could update profile pictures. I am not able to find the command to update profile pictures on the Wiki. Has the feature been removed? 

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Joshua Olds

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Sep 29, 2015, 2:19:59 AM9/29/15
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I'm with you Carl on this!  I have been looking at this for quite some time and there really isnt much in terms of being able to bulk update this feature. I only found gam. 
Personally I would like to be able to also do G+. I found that if the user changed their G+ image, it over rides the email picture. This is why I would personally like to be able to update the G+ photo too.

Thanks! 
Cant wait to hear replied!!


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Ramon develop

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Jul 22, 2018, 7:23:08 AM7/22/18
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Would love to see a working solution for this. 
Does the picture need to be online or can it be on my local machine?

For a training I would like to add a lot of fictional accounts (all Disney names) and it would be great if Snow White would have a profile picture of Snow White.

Dario Ampuy

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Jul 22, 2018, 2:35:11 PM7/22/18
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sadly so far google API for g+ is read only... i think your g+ profile picture and your gmail profile picture are different and separated... check  your user profile info after you modify your g+ profile picture to see if any new metadata is added to your user profile that can be modified with gam
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