Attachments
Community Forums supports two types of attachments:
Embedded image attachments are stored within the post's content and can be either dragged-and-dropped or pasted directly into the editor. They are converted into the correct image format and stored in the Portal's file manager.
Documents are attached in the editor. You can either choose from files on your computer or browse from files that are already existing in your portal.
Once you've attached, the files are saved when you save the post. For image files, they can be inserted into the content itself, and then become "embedded images" rather than "document attachments".
Embedded image attachments are allowed for anyone with "Edit" security. Document attachments are allowed for anyone with "Attach" security. For new installations, these are both enabled for Administrators and Registered Users.
You can then maintain the individual roles in the security matrix; this specifies which user roles can attach documents when posting:
Embedded images attachments are currently powered by some custom plugins for the CKEditor4 HTML editor provided with DNN. We have a new editor option that allows you to select this editor instead of the default DNN editor.
This editor option is now the default for a new installation, and if you are upgrading, and it was previously set to Default DNN Editor, it will change to the new DNN CKEditor4 plus Forums plugins option.
In the control panel, there is now a feature setting that lets you select the "editor" for each forum, forum group, or default for the module (remember that you can have forums inherit from groups, and groups inherit from module defaults, so you might only need to set this for the module defaults and it will flow downward):
_(Note: the "Insert files as tokens" option can be ignored)_
Each post with attachments has a separate folder in the DNN file manager and is separated by the "Module Id" for the forums module, and the "Content Id" of the post.
