IOTAP’s Sharepoint branding team has helped several customers with applying corporate branding to their Sharepoint sites. Recently during one such Sharepoint 2010 branding exercise, to induce some personilzation touch to the intranet we decided to display the user’s photo before the welcome text.

After tinkering with the Sharepoint 2010 master page controls a bit we were able to find a solution for displaying the user’s photo.

 

Default Sharepoint 2010 page:

 

 

display_user_image3

 

Sharepoint 2010 page after applying the user photo:

 

display_user_image4

 

Below are the steps for adding users photo before welcome text



STEP 1: Add the following Register tag at the top of the master page (before the doctype element)

<%@ Register Tagprefix="SPSWC" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

 

 

STEP 2: Search for"s4-trc-container-menu" and add the following control (before welcome control)

 

 

 

The picture display seeting can also be toggeled by changing the ShowPlaceholder setting "true" to "false"