File upload (not image) options

[Steve]

Hi,

Running Pro and Community Events. Have a need for community events submission form to include a file upload field. From reading the forums isn’t encouraging for find a solution to that. Is this possible with ACF – talking frontend form here.

If not is this a likely feature in the future or can you suggest another option?

Thanks.

[Andras]

Hello Steve,

Thanks for going Pro and welcome to the forums!

Good question you have there!

There is a file upload field on the front-end of Community Events where you can upload an image for the event. For security reasons only .png, .jpg and .gif are allowed. Anything else could lead to security vulnerabilities, so that is not a feature in our plugins, and it is not in the planning for the future at the moment.

I cannot confirm that it would be possible with ACF, but it might be possible. You will need to give that a try. 🙂

Does this help?

Cheers,
Andras

[Steve]

Thanks András,

Got that, will investigate ACF options further.

Understand security concerns but if you take feature requests a vote for extra file type support – often have people wanted to include pdf flyers, entry forms etc for events.

[Andras]

Hey Steve,

Thanks for your feedback, that is so much appreciated!

Indeed, we do take feature requests on our UserVoice page. I encourage you to visit it and either upvote an existing request or make a new request there, if you would like to see this as a feature in the future. I believe there should be a request already for other file types.

I am going to close this ticket, but if you need anything else related to this topic or another please post a new topic in the forum and we will help you out.

Also, if you are successful with implementing the features with ACF, then feel free to share it here in the forums. I’m sure other users would be happy to read about it.

Good luck with your project!

Cheers,
Andras

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