Integrating with Gravatar

Human connection plays a critical role in our daily interactions. If we see a person’s image we can build a better connection with the individual.

Integrating with Gravatar provides an ability to fetch and display the Contact's image by querying the email of the contact to find a hit.

To enable the integration of Reach with Gravatar, Reach administrator must perform the following configurations:

  1. Enable the Gravatar - Contact Image Auto Assignment flow, which is shipped with the Anthology Reach solution in the disabled state.

  2. Configure the following Gravatar settings in the Default Configuration page (Settings > Configuration):

    • Image Integration Gravatar Required: By default the value is set to Yes. Change it to No if you do not want your solution to source student profile images from Gravatar.
    • Image Integration Gravatar Url: The Gravatar URL is saved in this field.

By default the Gravatar - Contact Image Auto Assignment flow runs once every day to update the student's image profile.

Additionally, the Auto Update Picture option in a student record is selected by default. This enables the institution to use the student’s profile picture that is sourced from Gravatar in Anthology Reach. A student can ask the institution to clear this option, in which case the student’s profile picture from Gravatar will not be used.

Note: If the student's profile picture is sourced from Gravatar, the Image Source field in the student record is changed to Gravatar after the 'Gravatar - Contact Image Auto Assignment' flow runs. Later, if the student uploads a different profile picture or removes it, the value of the Image Source field is changed to Manually Updated on the next run of the 'Gravatar - Contact Image Auto Assignment' flow.