[SOLVED] Gravatar as CB Avatar

I am trying to pull the Gravatar into the CB Avatar. In the "Profile Value Layout" of the CB Avatar I added:
In the "Userlist Value Layout" of the CB Avatar I added:
It only seems to work when I both set the Gravatar and CB Avatar fields to Show on Profile. Obviously that defeats the purpose. I just want the CB Avatar field to Show on Profile and have it pull the Gravatar if a Gravatar is available.

Any feedback as to what I am doing wrong here?

Thx!

Sima

They both need to be set to show on profile for those substitutions to output them, but they don't actually have to be visible. To do this move them to a tab that's in a not shown on profile position so they won't display on profile, but can be substituted in fine.

Hello Kyle,

I followed your instructions and it works fine now. I have another problem though, now when I update the cb avatar with another image it will not replace it when it just viewed. It does replace it in edit mode but not when it is just displayed, instead it shows the gravatar. Do I need to create an auto action to delete the gravatar email address every time the cb avatar gets updated?

Thanks,

Sima

Well your condition is specifically configured to show the gravatar if the gravatar field has a value. It's not conditioning whether they uploaded something or not. So you'll need to empty the gravatar field before it'll show your uploaded image. The alternative is to add an extra condition to see if they uploaded something. Below will probably work.

[cb:if cb_gravatar="" or avatar!~"/(nophoto_n|tnnophoto_n)\.png$/"][value][/cb:if]
[cb:if cb_gravatar!="" and avatar=~"/(nophoto_n|tnnophoto_n)\.png$/"][cb:userfield field="cb_gravatar" /][/cb:if]

The first condition says if cb_gravatar is empty or if avatar is not the empty default then show avatar field. The second condition says if cb_gravatar is not empty and the avatar field is the empty default then show gravatar field.

This just switches the behavior you're seeing to the gravatar field instead of the avatar field though. Only way to clear the issue both ways is if you upload something then empty cb_gravatar and if you set cb_gravatar then delete the avatar (requires PHP).

Thanks Kyle, I got it to work with your feedback. Just a question, after fixing the issue, the avatar or gravatar are displaying as regular size (dimensions) and not the thumbnail size. How can I fix this?

The [value] should already be appropriately sized based off location. Fullsize on profile and thumbnail on userlist for example. The substitution usage you're using for the gravatar field is always going to be fullsize. To substitute in thumbnail you need to specify the reason as list on the substitution. Example as follows.

[cb:userfield field="cb_gravatar" reason="list" /]