[ZendTo] Re: Feature request: Send a "Request a Drop-off" to multiple people at once

[Jules]

That sounds like a great idea. Done.

It will be in the next release, unless you want to test it, in which 
case download the attached zip file and do
     cd /opt/zendto
     cp www/req.php lib/Req.php templates/request.tpl /tmp
     unzip MultipleRequests.php

The "cp" just makes a backup of the old ones in case you find a major 
bug and need to revert.

Then just ask for a request and you will see that "Email:" has changed 
to "Email(s):". :-)

The list of email addresses can be separated by any combination of "," 
and ";" and " ". Which should be pretty intuitive.

There is only 1 name however, so that will have to cover all the 
addresses. I doubt that's a major problem is it?

Jules.


On 31/10/2011 16:58, Craig Chambers wrote:
> Hi Jules,
>
> I though I would put this request out to the group to see if anyone 
> beside me would be interested in this feature. If there isn't a lot of 
> interest or it is a difficult thing to accomplish we can continue 
> using it as designed but this would certainly make our lives easier.
>
> I currently use your system for an event company I work for. One of 
> the use cases is that we have people send us their slide decks so that 
> our mail system doesn't get filled with 10+MB files.
>
> Often however, we have to put out a "call for presentations" and right 
> now, to make it easier on the presenters submitting their 
> presentations we use the Request a Drop-off feature to send the 
> presenter an upload link. This works pretty well but when you have 20+ 
> people you need to send a link to it becomes a bit bothersome to do. 
> My understanding is that only one recipient can use a link currently, 
> after it is used it expires. Is that correct?
>
> I was wondering if it would be possible to add some functionality to 
> the system so that you could add multiple email addresses into a 
> recipients box and have the system generate a link to each user 
> (Ideally you could paste a list of semi-colon separated names and not 
> have to add them one at a time). Not sure if it would be easier to 
> generate a unique link for each recipient or to make it so that one 
> link now has a counter of sorts that allows multiple people to upload 
> a file with one link but expires after a certain number of uploads or 
> a certain date.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Craig
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> ZendTo mailing list
> ZendTo at zend.to
> http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/zendto

Jules

-- 
Julian Field MEng CITP CEng
www.Zend.To

Follow me at twitter.com/JulesFM
PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654

'It's okay to live without all the answers' - Charlie Eppes, 2011
'All programs have a desire to be useful' - Tron, 1982
'That is the land of lost content,
  I see it shining plain,
  The happy highways where I went,
  And cannot come again.' - A.E. Houseman

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/zendto/attachments/20111108/fb0ec309/attachment.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: MultipleRequests.zip
Type: application/x-zip-compressed
Size: 6668 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/zendto/attachments/20111108/fb0ec309/attachment.bin