SOLVED] Post Photo in Feed but not in Profile Gallery

1. Is it possible to be able to post photos, in feeds (like inside Groups), but not allow uploading from the Gallery Tab in a profile?  If so, how?

 

2. When photos are posted in streams (such as Group Feed or Activity Feed), do they get stored in a user's Gallery, and would this appear on their profile (if the Gallery is enabled at the profile level)?

3. Where do the images, music, files, and videos get stored (does CB create a folder for each user on the server?

4. For video, did I read right in the configuration,  I can limit the video by only allowing URLS instead of uploading?

5. For files, is there a way to restrict file types to prevent malicious uploading of suspicious files?

Overall, I am just looking at ways to prevent/control CB  Gallery from potentially filling up a server with all the uploads.

Thanks!



 

1. Is it possible to be able to post photos, in feeds (like inside Groups), but not allow uploading from the Gallery Tab in a profile? If so, how?

Edit the CB Gallery parameters in your stream under Integrations > CB Gallery and explicitly turn on uploads. Next edit the CB Gallery tab in CB > Tab Management and turn off uploads. That should do the trick. In CB Gallery 3.0 activity uploads will no longer require this though and will be a completely separate stream.

2. When photos are posted in streams (such as Group Feed or Activity Feed), do they get stored in a user's Gallery, and would this appear on their profile (if the Gallery is enabled at the profile level)?

They are stored to the users gallery in a hidden profile.USER_ID.uploads asset and uploads album. They are only visible on profile to the profile owner and CB Moderators.

3. Where do the images, music, files, and videos get stored (does CB create a folder for each user on the server?

/images/comprofiler/plug_cbgallery

Each user has their own folder and they're separated by type in the user folders. Note this is all htaccess protected so none of this can be directly accessed.

4. For video, did I read right in the configuration, I can limit the video by only allowing URLS instead of uploading?

Yes.

5. For files, is there a way to restrict file types to prevent malicious uploading of suspicious files?

Don't allow extensions that can be malicious like exe. Beyond that ensure your server provides some sort of virus scanning or simply don't allow file uploading.

Overall, I am just looking at ways to prevent/control CB Gallery from potentially filling up a server with all the uploads.

That honestly is unlikely to ever happen. Storage is cheap and plentiful.

Thanks, Kyle. 

1. I'm having some trouble hiding the Gallery Tab as instructed.  Am I in the correct area to disable uploading to hide the Gallery Tab but still be able to have them post photos, etc, in the GJ Stream?   



The only way I seem to be able to hide the Gallery tab is to unpublish, but then the ability to post on a Stream also goes, despite having explicitly enabled uploads in the config settings.  By the way, I have left the settings in the CB Gallery plugin itself as the default (I gather this is what the "Same as Global" pulls from?)
 

 

2.  Can you let me know where I would restrict uploads based on file extension (eg, .exe)?  Update: (found it in Gallery>Configuration>Parameters>Files>Validation)


 

1. I'm having some trouble hiding the Gallery Tab as instructed. Am I in the correct area to disable uploading to hide the Gallery Tab but still be able to have them post photos, etc, in the GJ Stream?

That would just disable uploading. If you want to completely hide the gallery tab just move it to a "not shown on profile" tab position.

Wonderful!   That is far easier than my workaround using the CB Privacy and forcing it to be private.   Thanks, Kykle!