Good afternoon,
Ive spent quite a bit of time leafing through the forums here, and haven’t found any posts that are good use cases for my issue. Id like to use my own amazon RDS database to feed my member area forum, as well as an API I created a while back for content moderation. Is there a way to detatch the default “collection” from a forum and use one of my choosing? Any help would be of great value!
Matt
It sounds like you will need to build your own custom forum for this use case. The OOTB forum app does not currently have the functionality you are requesting.
If you want to read through the API’s they are here: https://www.wix.com/velo/reference/wix-forum-v2
https://www.wix.com/velo/reference/wix-forum-backend
And to connect you AWS db, here’s an article that can get you started if you need it: https://support.wix.com/en/article/velo-integrate-your-aws-rds-database-with-your-wix-site
Thank you @amandam for your reply. Am I correct that a wix forum has a maximum of 10,000 forum entries? I read it in passing, and did not see that hard number written in docs.
I think what you likely read is that. you cannot import more than 10k entries at a time. There is not a 10k limit on the collection, but if you are running into issues I would reach out to customer care as there may be somehting else going on
Thanks again for a quick reply. I’m no where near any sort of limit that may exist, I am more being hopfull that one day my site will grow, and I want to ensure that I dont hit a hard limit just when things are going well for us, if that makes sense. Just curious, the “image” field for forum posts, is that simply an image URL link to an uploaded image from within our wix account?
I’m not sure what you mean, this is the list of fields in the collection but there isn’t one for image https://support.wix.com/en/article/velo-wix-forum-posts-collection-fields.
As far as limits, if you ever run into anything that is limiting to your business, reach out to customer care as there are often other solutions that they may be able to help you with. BUt yes, you are definitely safe over 10k entries to the collection
Ah, I am mistaken. I see that when my users want to make a post, they are able to attach an image to it. Im just curious where the data is stored for that image. Id like to use an AWS lambda function to capture the image and downscale it, To save size, and host images in my s3 bucket instead of on wix storage.
The images are automatically uploaded to the media area.
Wix also already optimizes all images and converts to webP format. You can read more about images here. https://support.wix.com/en/article/site-performance-optimizing-your-media
"Wix automatically optimizes your images for best online quality and fast download. This means that, unless your file is over 25MB, you do not need to resize or compress it before uploading. "
Again, if you want custom functionality you will need to build your own forum solution. You will not be able to divert the images to another location if you choose to use the forum app
Edit: This is not true of all apps as some have more places to customize the ootb functionality, but the forum is not open in this way so you kind of need to choose to use it as is or roll your own version which is possible on Wix but may not be your best use of time depending on your goals.
Again, thank you very much for your reply. I think we’ll stick with the regular wix forum, doing a little math says we can store many, many images on the site given the amount on compression wix is placing on them, also I’m very impressed with the image quality. Wix really has done a great job.
Awesome! I’m glad it will work out for you and as you scale if you ever have any questions about needing more, reach out to support so they can give you all the options and make sure you are able to continue to grow