Use employee photo in SMARTFORMS

Question

Dear all,
As we know, we can upload employee photo so that the employee photo can be seen when user browses through transaction code such as 'PA30/PA20'. Where as the employee photo is uploaded through the transaction code OAAD so the picture is stored as an Archive-Link document.
Currently I have a requirement to create a custom form using SMARTFORMS which can show the employee photo in the form. I've been reading through this forum and find negative responses for this kind of requirement because:
1.Smartform can only uses 'BMP' type picture
2. Smartform can only uses graphic object stored through the transaction code: SE78.
Is there anybody who has found a way around this problem and uses uploaded employee photo within the smartform. Kindly share the solutions.
If we can't uses the uploaded photo, is it possible for a smartform to uses a picture which is put in a file server.
Best Regards
-Suwardi Nursalim-

Answer 1

You can use the HTML control to display photos from your archive server.  You can do this with a couple of function calls which returns the URL of the photo on the server.  Then pass the URL to the HTML viewer.
        CALL FUNCTION 'HR_IMAGE_EXISTS'
          EXPORTING
            p_pernr                     = pernr
*   P_TCLAS                     = 'A'
           p_begda                     = sy-datum
           p_endda                     = sy-datum
         IMPORTING
           p_exists                    = image_exists
           p_connect_info              = image_info
         EXCEPTIONS
           error_connectiontable       = 1
           OTHERS                      = 2
        IF sy-subrc <> 0.
* MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
*         WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
        ENDIF.
        CALL FUNCTION 'ARCHIVOBJECT_GET_URI'
          EXPORTING
            objecttype               = image_info-sap_object
            object_id                = image_info-object_id
          TABLES
            uri_table                = uri_tab
          EXCEPTIONS
            error_archiv             = 1
            error_communicationtable = 2
            error_kernel             = 3
            error_http               = 4
            error_dp                 = 5
            OTHERS                   = 6.