Choose your storage option
Sliick Photos supports three storage approaches. This page helps administrators pick one before they start configuring. You set your choice on the Storage Settings tab of the Sliick Admin app, and the components pick it up automatically.
The three options
Section titled “The three options”| Option | What it is | Good to know |
|---|---|---|
| Salesforce Files | The default. Images stay inside your Salesforce org. Nothing to set up. | Files must be under 4 MB. No automatic image processing, no tags, no share links. |
| Sliick Cloud Storage | Cloud storage that Sliick runs for you, with your org’s files kept separate from every other org’s. This is a paid premium tier. See the Sliick Photos product page for pricing. | The simplest cloud option: you designate an integration user and click Connect. There is no bucket to create and no credentials to manage. |
| Bring your own storage | Your own Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage or SharePoint location. | You keep control of the bucket or library and its costs, and you do the provider-side setup. |
What changes when you move to cloud storage
Section titled “What changes when you move to cloud storage”| Salesforce Files | Sliick Cloud Storage | Your own storage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profile photo size limit | 4 MB | 25 MB | 25 MB |
| Automatic image processing | No | Yes | Yes, except SharePoint |
| Tags on images | No | Yes | Yes |
| Share links for people outside Salesforce | No | Yes, once Sliick turns it on for your org | Yes, once Sliick turns it on for your org |
Automatic image processing converts iPhone HEIC photos to JPG, corrects sideways photos, resizes large images and makes thumbnails. See Image processing pipeline.
Before you choose
Section titled “Before you choose”- Switching provider does not move the images you already have. Older images keep displaying from where they were stored, and only new uploads go to the new location. Users can move a Salesforce file into the connected storage one at a time from the file list.
- Tags appear only on images in cloud storage that have version history.
- The image processing pipeline is not available with SharePoint. Images are stored exactly as uploaded.
- You need a dedicated integration user before you connect any cloud provider: see Set up the Integration User.