I just bought DF 3 and have some questions.

I have a table I want to upload a picture to. The table has three columns - postID (PK), userid, and picture. I think I can get DF to do the upload to the external table. My question is I want to then access the picture field from another module. When I query the picture field what I am going to get - the thumbnail or the full size image?

Second - is there any way to limit the size and/or dimensions of uploaded images?

Third - is it possbile to link DF with the sqlgridselectedview module like you have done with OWS & Indoogrid?

Thanks

HI,
1) when you query the picture field, you should get the path of the file (the full directory path / or just filename of the picture) so that by clicking on it it will display in a browser window. If you check your SQL table, you will see how it's storing the data.
2) There should already be a setting in the web.config which controls the maximum file size. This is the setting the module is going to use, and also the setting that other areas of DNN should use I believe (such as if you tried to upload a file too large under Admin, File Manager)
3) yes, DF can be tired to OWS / Indoogrid. See our Demos 21 tutorial.

-- David

HI, I don't know how to get around this issue. After googling, I found out that the bottleneckt is IIS. It has 2 parameters that govern this: MaxRequestLength and RequestTimeOut.

In web.config the upload size is limited to 8MB
httpRuntime useFullyQualifiedRedirectUrl="true" maxRequestLength="8192" requestLengthDiskThreshold="8192"

You can change those parameters to allow larger uploads, 20480 would be 20MB

httpRuntime useFullyQualifiedRedirectUrl="true" maxRequestLength="20480" requestLengthDiskThreshold="20480"
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However, I can't find any solution / configuration to set different file size uploads for different file types. Perhaps a separate, custom DNN module somewhere out there can do this (Repository module). -- David