Uploads

The Forum ☛ Components ☛ Upload Options administration panel is where you control file uploading for your Forum. With Simple:Press Forum V4.1, you can now upload Images, Media and other file types. As admin, using this panel, you set all the properties of file uploading for each type. Which Users can upload which file types is controlled by Permissions.

Upload Settings

Allocate Each Member a Private Folder

By turning this option on, each member who is granted any uploading permissions will have their own ‘private’ folder defined that will be created within the upload folder specified in the location configuration of the forum. The benefit of this is that each member will not be able to list files uploaded by other members.

Maximum Size of Thumbnails

Set the maximum size for thumbnails in the upload browser – will be applied to either the width or height whichever is the longer.

How Many Thumbnails to a Page

This refers to how many items will appear in the upload browser per ‘page’.

Prohibited Files

Use this list to hold the file types that are disallowed from being uploaded. It is important to include any files that may contain program code.

Separate file extensions with a comma.

Image Files

Use this list to define the allowed image file types. Any not on this list will be disallowed.

Separate file extensions with a comma.

Media Files

Use this list to define the allowed media file types. Any not on this list will be disallowed.

Separate file extensions with a comma.

Other Files

Use this list to define the allowed ‘other’ file types. Any not on this list will be disallowed.

Separate file extensions with a comma.