As designed Can't Attach Own Images from Another DiscussionMessage

[vbresults]

I can't attach my own images from another DiscussionMessage [i.e. Post, Profile Post] by copying the BBCode. Instead, I just see the alt-text with a link to the attachment. If I directly link, it works.

p.s. This may also extend to conversations.

 

[Chris D]

This is how the system is designed.

Posts are fetched from the database along with, taking into account various permissions, the attachment record/data which are attached to those posts. If you try to use an attachment from another item of content, we won't have fetched the record/data for that attachment, we won't have checked permissions for that attachment, hence a simple link is shown instead.

It will absolutely apply to conversations, too. Attachments in conversations can only be viewed by the participants of the conversation.

 

[vbresults]

This is how the system is designed.

Posts are fetched from the database along with, taking into account various permissions, the attachment record/data which are attached to those posts. If you try to use an attachment from another item of content, we won't have fetched the record/data for that attachment, we won't have checked permissions for that attachment, hence a simple link is shown instead.

It will absolutely apply to conversations, too. Attachments in conversations can only be viewed by the participants of the conversation.

What about just auto-converting it to an image tag then?

 

[Mike]

That will lead to broken image placeholders for users that can't view the attachment. We don't recommend trying to embed attachments via IMG tags.