It is my understanding the Discourse does not allow certain file attachments like PDF, Excel, Word etc. Another cloud based software that I use, uses Discourse as their Community and when I asked why we could not attach these types of files they said they were limited by Discourse. Jim

Adding File Type Attachments

cpradio (cpradio) April 6, 2017, 9:35pm 2

It is a site setting. I believe the setting is authorized extensions

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