Add custom verification image upload for new signups?

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Hello!

New to Discourse, I need new users to upload a verification image before their account is created… I’ve already required new users to be approved before allowing access, but I also need:

  1. an upload button on the new account form, as a required field
  2. access to this uploaded image on the admin section (or possibly just a hyperlink to the S3 location of the image?), so we can preview this image prior to approval

Can this be built using a plugin? Can I use tie into the existing upload-selector code or should I write something new? Or please suggest a strategy/direction for accomplishing this feature… much appreciated!

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I’ve heard about this use case before. Can they simply email you the verification image? Out of band might be better.

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Eh maybe… how would that workflow look?

I’d prefer they upload it while filling out the form, and maybe we just upload it to some S3 bucket, that seems more user-friendly.

Would this be difficult to build out, could I do it with a plugin? If you can just point me in the right direction I think I can figure it out

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You can also set up incoming email so that email to a certain address comes in as Discourse PMs to your staff. We do that here, for example, so emails to team@discourse.org arrive as PMs to the staff group.

So you could have verify-me@example.com where people should email their verification images, and that would arrive in Discourse as a PM to the @verification group (or whatever group you prefer).

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That’s not a bad workflow :slight_smile:

This can be configured in the admin settings section? Or where do I set this up at?

Appreciate the help!!

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@codinghorror I looked through all the admin settings and don’t see the way to configure this - can you point me to where I can configure this?

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Search the howto category for configuring reply via email to start.