Gravatar Macro doesn't show the avatar

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Hi,
I installed the gravatar macro.
In Navigation menu (on the left) I see the item “gravatar” under “Macro”. But the page is empty and to my users is not bound an avatar.
At the macro page http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Gravatar%20Macro
I see some instructions, but it’s not clear to me if I need to write the example code somewhere.
Could you please suggest me how to correctly activate this macro (if something must be done)?
Thank you
Nicola

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You just need to install this extension using the Extension Manager in your wiki and from then on you can use the macro.

I think one issue might be that you need to install it with a user having Programming Rights. I’ve now added that info: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Gravatar%20Macro#HPrerequisites26InstallationInstructions

If you have already installed it, find the page where it’s installed , edit it and save it with a user having Programming Rights.

Hope it helps.

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FYI just installed it on playground.xwiki.org and used the macro and it’s working fine:

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Page content is:

{{gravatar email="john@does.com" size="100" default="monsterid"/}}
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Hi,
I tried in a sandbox and I could see my gravatar once written the above code.
But I expected that with such a macro, every logged user (with an avatar associated to his email) could see his avatar (at the top on right of the page) once logged.
Even in playground.xwiki.org I cannot see my avatar when I login.

How can I activate avatar for all users, please?

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This extension is just a macro to display a gravatar. Maybe what you’re after is http://snippets.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Gravatar%20Import ?

It’s not exactly what you’re asking for but it could help.

Otherwise you need to edit the user profile sheet. Let me find out how.

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I’ve added some info at http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Gravatar%20Macro#HExample2 but it won’t fully work, see the warning there.

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Thus the only solution that will work FTM is to have a script that sets the user avatar when a user is created, similarly to what is done in http://snippets.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Gravatar%20Import

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Idea: you coud run this import script in a scheduler job in xwiki, every day or so.