Student photographs - Kosudo/nextSIS GitHub Wiki

The system will support the display of student photographs alongside their information. It will also be possible to include these in reports for teachers (for example a report organised into a table format for teachers featuring the student photo with a name underneath).

There are two technical options for supporting student photographs:

1. Photographs are uploaded into the database
2. Photographs are uploaded to the server and the database stores a link to the file location

The first option makes the database larger but makes backing up easier as everything is in one place. The second option means that any database backup will not cover the image files and therefore a separate process needs to be put in place on the server to support this. It may also make any move away from nextSIS to another system difficult for the user, which should not be the case.

Generally, the ideal would be to support both data storage approaches and give people the option as to which they want to use.