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    Gregg, Luigi,<br>
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    Your start and expiry date/time pickers on the "request a drop-off"
    page are nearly there.<br>
    I want to re-arrange the page a bit first, and improve the HTML in
    it so I'm using grids and flex boxes like I now do in the "new
    drop-off" form.<br>
    <br>
    I'll release a beta once I think I've got it all right.<br>
    <br>
    Cheers,<br>
    Jules.<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. </span></div>
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        <div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Luigi</span></div>
        <div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span></div>
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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>
            <br>
            You can basically do all of this now.<br>
            <br>
            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>
            <br>
            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>
            <br>
            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>
            <br>
            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>
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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>
                  </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">I would like to bounce an idea with
                    you?</span></p>
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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>
                <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">It was a thought I have for a future
                    feature.</span></p>
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0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
                    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">Regards</span></p>
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0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
                    lang="EN-US">Gregg</span></p>
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to 7, becoming variable 3 or 4 in southeast. Moderate or rough, occasionally
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