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Content Options

Content Options let a community administrator disable specific creation surfaces — pictures on posts, comments, or replies, and polls on posts — independently per content type. The SDK reads this configuration automatically from the backend and hides the relevant UI affordances. No code change is required from app integrators — the change is purely backend-side.

What is controlled​

The following creation affordances can be disabled individually through the backend API key configuration:

  • Post pictures (post.enablePictures = false) — hides the picture-add button in the post composer.
  • Post polls (post.enablePolls = false) — hides the poll-creation button in the post composer and the poll incentive button on the current-user profile.
  • Comment pictures (comment.enablePictures = false) — hides the picture-add button in the comment input.
  • Reply pictures (reply.enablePictures = false) — hides the picture-add button in the reply input. Comment and reply picture gates are independent — each can be set separately.
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Bridge Share / prefilled-post images (opened via deep link or the create-post initial screen) are not gated by post.enablePictures. They use a separate authorization path.

Default behavior​

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All flags default to true. A community that does not configure Content Options in its backend keeps today's behavior exactly — nothing is hidden.

Platform details​

≥ 1.12.1

The SDK reads ContentOptions from CommunityConfig.contentOptions, populated automatically from the backend configuration at startup and on each config refresh. No SDK code is required — the UI updates reactively.

The ContentOptions type structure is available for inspection if you need to observe content options in your own UI:

import com.octopuscommunity.sdk.domain.model.CommunityConfig

// ContentOptions is read from CommunityConfig.contentOptions — not constructed by app code.
val options: CommunityConfig.ContentOptions = communityConfig.contentOptions

// Post options
options.post.enablePictures  // Boolean — false hides the picture-add button in the post composer
options.post.enablePolls     // Boolean — false hides the poll-creation button

// Comment options
options.comment.enablePictures  // Boolean — false hides the picture-add button in comments

// Reply options
options.reply.enablePictures    // Boolean — false hides the picture-add button in replies

// Absent backend config defaults to all flags enabled — CommunityConfig.ContentOptions()