One of our sites would like its visitors to be able to upload images of themselves, which can then be viewed by others on the site - terrifying concept if you ask me :lol:
Anyway, I wondered whether I could do this by using the account manager or asset builder to upload a thumbanail. I've tried both, but had no success so far.
FYI - Our web architecht won't let '_edit' be used publicly except on the account manager page.
You would need to use an Asset Builder to upload thumbnails.
If it's possible to find out, could you post which version of the asset builder you're using?
What sort of problems have you had setting it up?
I'm using a version of 3.5. Here's what I've done:
Set up the asset builder to upload a thumbnail under the current asset
Nested the asset builder in a paint layout (type user)
Applied the paint layout to the user folder
The problem I'm encountering is that I don't know how to create a 'use me' notice link to the thumbnail field of the user asset
I also don't know how I will be able to ensure that users can only use the asset builder to upload images to their own user asset and not other peoples. (I guess I could use triggers to clone an asset under every user as they are created and thereby inherit the permissions from the user, but I'm concerned that if I ever need to change the format of the asset builder, I would have thousands of copies to change :blink: )
I can't help thinking that it might be simpler to develop an extended version of the account manager that enables users to upload a thumbnail along with their other account details.
What do you think?
Asset Builder wont be able to create that thumbnail link - its is done is a special way.
Okay. Thanks, Greg.