I'm trying to integrate my rails app with SugarCRM. Is it possible to fetch the Contact picture from SugarCRM using REST API? Please let me know.

• sugarcrm

To get the profile image for a user do the following:

1. Call the login method through REST
2. Call the get_entry_list method through REST, with the following parameters:
   1. Module: Users
   2. Query: users.user_name = 'xxxx'
   3. Select_fields: picture
3. The response contains the filename for the profile image, which is stored in /uploads.
4. However, it is not possible to view the image in that folder due to .htaccess restrictions for security reasons, but other options exist:
   1. Extend the REST API with a method to serve profile images (similar to get_document_revision)
   2. Login on the server from your rails app and get the image
   3. Create a simple entrypoint+module in SugarCRM, which can show the picture
   4. Remove the .htaccess restiction for images (if it doesn't create a security risk in your setup)

In such scenario, I faced a problem where the upload folder stores file with name of the record id, i.e the GUID without file extension. So to cop up with this I did write a function to copy the file at same hierarchy but with its extension. Example: A png extension file at upload folder with name say, '32sdft-tg35f-Tuhis-675rtyf-77666-46dgc' will end up as, '32sdft-tg35f-Tuhis-675rtyf-77666-46dgc.png' Now only the path will be require to render the image.

Rest all things as applicable as suggested by our friend, Kare !!