[PaulEscobar]

Before reading, let me say...

My question is very simple.

But it begs alot of explanation.
Which is why I've typed so much.
Feel free to just read the red-lettered parts, to get the quick-version of my question.


My Personal Background...

I am a "potential customer", not looking for "support instructions".

I work in the Oil and Gas industry.
I'm used to working with Microsoft's ONENOTE program.
But my co-workers are not familiar with this software.

So I'm thinking of creating a forum.
We'd share general articles and research, in an easy manner.

But there's a certain prerequisite the forum-software must have.


My Problem...

Vbulletin has a great "rich text editor".

It's a real time saver, and is easy to use.
You can avoid html coding and even "bbcode".
It allows users to copy from outside sources, while pasting with images and formatting intact.

I notice that the pasted images tend to be hotlinked (files hosted on foreign sites). If the foreign site goes down, the images can disappear from a post.

Since I want to use the forum as a database, this is troublesome.


What I need...

When pasting into the "rich text editor"...
I'd like the images to be AUTOMATICALLY converted/re-hosted on my own local site.

I know there are "image hosts".
But many users of my forum will not be familiar with image-code and image-hosts.

If the rich text editor can simply convert their pasted foreign-images into locally-hosted images...it would save alot of time.

Is Vbulletin capable of doing this?

--------------- Added 06 Feb 2008 at 03:35 ---------------

Just to note..
I originally posted this at "Vbulletin.com".

Many responders there suggested I post my topic here at "Vbulletin.Org" instead.

So I'll try it, hoping to see if there are any possible solutions to my query.