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Luigi,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/07/2020 14:29, Luigi Capriotti
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<div>Hi Jules,</div>
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><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">There
would also need to be Start and End Date fields, which would
define the period the PDO will be active for.</span>
<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">this
is not 100% feasible right now, isn't it. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Acknowledging
the start date is not easily implemented with the current
backend library, </span><span
style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">I
would envisage the availability of an "advanced" PDO setup
option where the end of the drop-off validity can be set
based on calendar/time pickers. The specified timestamp
would be used to calculate the validity of the drop-off in
minutes. <br>
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The "start date" is the time when you create the request.<br>
The "end date" is now + the lifetime of the drop-off. But agreed,
currently the request doesn't let you set the individual dropoff's
lifetime. You can only set that when you create a drop-off.<br>
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But yes, a couple of date/time pickers in the UI would be the ideal
solution.<br>
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I'll add it to the list...<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Jules.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 7:55 PM
Jules via ZendTo <<a href="mailto:zendto@zend.to"
moz-do-not-send="true">zendto@zend.to</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div> Gregg,<br>
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You can basically do all of this now.<br>
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Your "Predefined Drop Off(PDO)" is what ZendTo calls a
"request for a drop-off". There is a button on the main menu
to do exactly this.<br>
You can send these to multiple recipients by putting
multiple email addresses in the "Request a drop-off" form,
just separate them with commas or spaces.<br>
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The rest of it you can do with ZendTo's automation feature,
where you can create a "request for a drop-off" from the
command-line, and hence from a script. You would need to
write something to tie that in to your existing coursework
management system, but the scripts that drive ZendTo
automatically are actually nothing more than a long "curl"
command to do an HTTP POST operation that supplies all the
information in 1 hit.<br>
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The automation stuff is documented here<br>
<a href="http://zend.to/automation" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">zend.to/automation</a><br>
and there is a script called "autorequest" which automates
the "request a drop-off" process.<br>
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Any more questions, problems, or any other way I can help,
please do no hesitate to get in touch.<br>
<br>
I work for a University myself, and have written coursework
submission systems before. A few of our academics use our
instance of ZendTo to get coursework submissions from
students, especially when they are large submissions like
videos of interviews.<br>
<br>
Hope that helps,<br>
Jules.<br>
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<div>On 08/07/2020 18:08, Gregg Douglas via ZendTo wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US">Hey Jules,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US">I hope you are keeping safe and
healthy. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US">I would like to bounce an idea with
you?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US">Take a Lecturer or Tender Officer, they
need to request students to submit assignments or
suppliers to submit tenders.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US">This person (Lecturer or Tender
Officer) would then access ZendTO and create a
“Predefined Drop Off(PDO)”. In this PDO, one would
preselect or predefine all the fields and options.
The Subject, would also be predefined, but would be
used as a field to group the PDOs. So, for a
Lecturer they would use the Subject to define the
name of the assignment that the students must
submit. A Tender Officer would use the Subject to
define the Tender Reference. The Short Note Field
could be left as a free text block, allowing the
Student or Supplier to include a note. There would
also need to be Start and End Date fields, which
would define the period the PDO will be active for.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US">Then, there would need to be an
“Alternative” Interface for ZendTO. In this
“Alternative” Interface a student or supplier could
select the relevant active Assignment or Tender form
a list of all active ones. On selecting the required
item from the list, the normal process of
“Requesting a Drop Off” would follow, like
confirming the email address of the student or
supplier via the verification email. The link in
this email would open the PDO with all the
predefined fields and the student or supplier can
then upload and submit the information.</span></p>
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lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US">It was a thought I have for a future
feature.</span></p>
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lang="EN-US"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US">Regards</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
lang="EN-US">Gregg</span></p>
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