Contacts App with pictures Sharepoint Online

Question

I added the Contacts App to my site and synchronized it with my outlook. Now I want the pictures that are in Outlook to be displayed on Sharepoint.

The attachment field shows that there is a ContactPicture.jpg but does not show the actual picture. I then added a calculated column to display the image (as described here) and set it up as a number column.

Then I added this formula to the calculated column:

="<img src='https://domainname.sharepoint.com/sites/[site]/[subsite]/Lists/[listname]/Attachments/"&ID&"/ContactPicture.jpg' />"

But this just displays the IMG tag and source like this:

<img src='https://domainname.sharepoint.com/sites/[site]/[subsite]/Lists/[listname]/Attachments/1/ContactPicture.jpg' />

Is this method still usable or am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

you're running into the recent effects of Microsoft's SharePoint calculated columns update.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4032106/handling-html-markup-in-sharepoint-calculated-fields

The update took effect June 13.

JSLink may provide a workaround for you, but exactly how, I can't advise.