Add contact image to experience profile in Sitecore 9

Technical Leader

Valtech, India

December 22, 2018

Adding contact image in Sitecore 9 is pretty straight forward, you might come across the requirement where you have to update the contact profile image in xProfile based on contact social profile or custom image URL.

The code below can be used to set the profile image using Avatar Facet.


var trackerIdentifier = new
IdentifiedContactRfence("xDB.Tracker",Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.Current.Contact.ContactId.ToString("N"));

using (XConnectClient client =
Sitecore.XConnect.Client.Configuration.SitecoreXConnectClientConfiguration.GetClient())

{
var contact=
client.Get<Sitecore.XConnect.Contact>
(trackerIdentifierSitecore.XConnect.ContactExpandOptions());

if (contact != null)
{
    var profileImageUrl = "profile URL comes here";
    var objWebClient = new
System.Net.WebClient();
   byte[] profileImageBytes =
objWebClient.DownloadData(profileImageUrl);
   string mimeType= "image/jpeg";
   client.SetFacet<Avatar>(contact,
Avatar.DefaultFacetKey, new Avatar(mimeType, profileImageBytes)
   {
       MimeType= mimeType,
       Picture= profileImageBytes
   });
   client.Submit():
}
}