we are using IBM Notes Traveler for years now and recently switched to using IBM Verse Client on Android Smartphones. As I can’t find any official information on the persons app of the Verse Client, maybe someone from the forum can help me.
I was asked by a user what the different icons/symbols behind a person means. If you don’t have a photo connected to the person, there is a person symbol displayed which differs in color. On my phone there are syymbols in green, red and purple (as far as i can see it). All of these contacts are contacts from Notes, there are no contacts from different sources displayed. Does anyone know what this color means ?
On Verse mobile client, a photo will be present if the photo exists in local contacts, Sametime or some other systems when creating a new contact. But if such a photo cannot be found, a default avatar will be assigned to user. These avatars show different color. What’s the meaning of color?
Answer
There are 16 different avatar colors by design. The avatars are named avatar_.png ( means 0,1,2…9,a,b,c,d,e,f). Verse uses the last character of contact’s first name to pick one of the 16 different avatar picture files. Use the UTF-8 encoding modulus 16 to determine the number. For example, first name “Glu” would detect the last character to be “u” which is Unicode 117, then modulus 16 is 5. So Glu’s avatar would be avatar_5.png.