File Upload

In this article you will find all of the settings related to File Uploads.

General Settings

File Uploads Enabled

Use this setting to enable or restrict file uploads on your server

File Uploads Enabled in Direct Messages

Use this setting to enable or restrict file uploads on Direct Messages

Maximum File Upload Size (in bytes)

Use this setting to define the maximum allowed file size for uploads.

Set it to -1 to remove the file size limitation.

Accepted Media Types

Use this setting to define what types of files the users will be able to upload.

Comma-separated list of media types. Leave it blank for accepting all media types.

Protect Uploaded Files

  • Yes: Only authenticated users will have access to the uploaded files.

  • No: If in possession of the uploaded file's URL, unauthenticated users will be able to access and download said files.

Storage Type

Amazon S3

You can find a more detailed guide on how to set your Amazon S3 server here.

Access Key

Your Amazon Access Key ID (optional)

Secret Key

Your Amazon Secret Access Key (optional)

Note: If no AWSAccessKeyId and AWSSecretAccessKey are set, the underlying AWS SDK will fallback to trying to retrieve credentials from the usual locations.

Acl

(Optional)

A Canned ACL configuration (see a full list here)

Bucket name

The bucket name you've created on Amazon S3

Bucket URL

(Optional)

Override URL to which files are uploaded. This URL will also be used for downloads unless a CDN is given

CDN Domain for Downloads

(Optional)

If you had set a CDN for your bucket, put it here

Proxy Avatars

Proxy avatar file transmissions through your server instead of direct access to the asset's URL

Proxy Uploads

Proxy upload file transmissions through your server instead of direct access to the asset's URL

Region

(Optional)

If you have created your bucket on region different from the US Standard, you have to set their code here (see a list of region codes here)

Signature Version

Identifies the version of AWS Signature that you want to support for authenticated requests.

URLs Expiration Timespan

Time after which Amazon S3 generated URLs will no longer be valid (in seconds). If set to less than 5 seconds, this field will be ignored.

If you run into issues with files not loading consistently for some users located further from server location. Increasing this time might help.

FileSystem

System Path

The local path for where the uploaded files will be stored.

Google Cloud Storage

Settings used when configuring a Google Cloud Storage server. You can find more details in here

Google Storage Access Id

The access ID (or username) of the service account which has access to your Cloud Storage bucket.

The Access Id is generally in an email format, for example: "example-test@example.iam.gserviceaccount.com"

Google Storage Bucket Name

The name of the bucket which the files should be uploaded to.

Proxy Avatars

Proxy avatar file transmissions through your server instead of direct access to the asset's URL

Proxy Uploads

Proxy upload file transmissions through your server instead of direct access to the asset's URL

Google Storage Secret

What is a essentially a .pem containing your private key and certificate.

You can find a guide here on how to get your keys.

Google Vision

Settings related to the Google Vision feature.

Google vision is a Paid API from Google, using it on Ministry.Chat may generate fees, see Google Vision page.

Block Adult Images

This setting enables the blocking of adult images

Blocking adult images will not work once the monthly limit has been reached

Current Month Calls

Here it will be displayed how many calls were made this month

Enable Google Vision

This enables the Google vision feature on your server.

Max Monthly Calls

Here you can define the max amount of calls that should be made in a month.

Use 0 for unlimited

Google Vision Service Account

Create a server key (JSON format) and paste the JSON content in the field.

Document Text Detection

This will enable text detection on images, when text is detected on an image, a property with the text will be added on the file entry in the database.

Face Detection

This will enable face detection on images, when a face is detected on an image, a property with the face information will be added on the file entry in the database.

Labels Detection

This will enable labeling on uploaded images, then a property with the image labels will be added on the file entry in the database.

E.g If you post an image of a cat with glasses, the categories CAT and GLASSES will be added to the file.

Landmarks Detection

This will enable landmarks detection on images, when a landmark is detected on an image, a property with the landmark information will be added on the file entry in the database.

Logos Detection

This will enable logos detection on images, when a logo is detected on an image, a property with the logo information will be added on the file entry in the database.

Properties (Color) Detection

This will enable color detection on images, this will create a property with the colors used on the image on the file entry in the database.

SafeSearch Detection

Safe Search Detection detects explicit content such as adult content or violent content within an image. This feature uses five categories ("adult", "spoof", "medical", "violence", and "racy") and returns the likelihood that each is present in a given image

Categories will be added as a property on the file entry on the database.

Search Similar Images

This will enable users to search for similar images directly from Ministry.Chat.

WebDAV

Settings used in the setting of a WebDAV storage server.

WebDAV Password

Password for the remote webdav server.

Proxy Avatars

Proxy avatar file transmissions through your server instead of direct access to the asset's URL.

Proxy Uploads

Proxy upload file transmissions through your server instead of direct access to the asset's URL.

WebDAV Server Access URL

The URL of the WebDAV server (WebDAV URLs of Common Cloud Storage Services).

Upload Folder Path

WebDAV folder path which the files should be uploaded to.

WebDAV Username

Username for the remote WebDav server.

PreviousConnect Ministry.Chat to hundreds of other apps with ZapierNextAmazon S3

Last updated