[ZendTo] Re: How do you market ZendTo service to your internal staff?

[Jules]

Glad you like it!

For your "power users" you could even change the template for the 
dropoff page where it shows you the claim ID and passcode, so that it 
shows a link they can copy and paste straight into their email message 
so the recipients don't have to do all the hard work themselves.

It's only a template change, and a pretty simple one at that. The 
template files are intended for you to modify as you need to, changes to 
these will survive upgrades.

You just have to edit /opt/zendto/templates/show_dropoff.tpl starting 
about line 117. That line draws the box in the bottom left corner that 
shows the claim ID and passcode of the dropoff you just created.

You could change it to something like

<p>To send the file to someone else, simply right-click
<a 
href="https://sendto.nmni.com/pickup.php?claimID={$claimID}&claimPasscode={$claimPasscode}">here</a> 
and then paste into an email message.</p>

That will probably do what you want. Obviously I'm assuming the 
"sendto.nmni.com" is the name of your ZendTo server. Don't add any 
line-breaks inside the "<a>" tag.

Jules.

On 16/01/2012 09:06, Paul Harrington wrote:
> We renamed it to
>
> Sendto and made sure the FQN was the same internally and externally (our AD domain is a different name)
>
> We have implemented strict file limits on incoming and outgoing emails (5MB) so a lot of staff have to use it.  We also sell a lot of large images, so our marketing department love the system. It was a lot easier getting their clients to use this than FTP, or clogging up their email systems with large attachments. It also means they can send ridiculously large attachments (HD video clips) without relying on couriers.
>
> The feature where you can email just the claim ID and passcode is great. In the absence of an address book in Zendto, this is great for mass emails.
>
> Plus you get notification when your email/file is picked up, so it's good for tracking,
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