Again about Attachments Management

[jumborex]

Recently we decided to open our Board where also registred users may upload an attachment. My question is, why attachment management is only made in a generic way, and cannot be limited according to the rank of the User?
I mean, an Admin, may have no limitation (for example). A common Registered User may only upload images, not bigger than 200K...
I think this would be realy Useful.

[Dog Cow]

I think the thought was that group-based permissions would be a better solution.

[jumborex]

I think the thought was that group-based permissions would be a better solution.

This is not the point: with this method (if I understand correctly) you may give permission to upload, or not give it. Only certain groups may upload, some other no.
Often you need to garantee a full permission, (high bytes quota, all type of files) to admins, allowing only images (this is en axample), and a small dimension for all regular users, plus Excel files for moderators, etc.

What I say is that attachment permission should be designed according to the ranks.
And mantaining also the forum permission, the group permission as at the present time.

[ToonArmy]

Ranks have never been used by phpBB to control permissions they are merely a user facing representation of status.