Wednesday 23 March 2011

Collecting, collaborating and sharing.

Using Jot Form and drop box to collect files.

I have been experimenting with a way to have a remote drop box. Here's a way of using the DropBox service to achieve this.  I have set up an account with Jotform.   Jot Form will provide a range of ways to link and embed the code.  The embed code worked but fails to show the form in Blogger's Preview.  It's better to use the iframe code. This one should display in Preview in Blogger.



The last one is as a link to a pop up.

Send a File

There. How useful is that!

OK I have just tested it. The describe field is sent as a separate pdf. A folder is created with the names entered. All are placed in a folder called Jot Form. Impressive. Now I'm going to edit the form. Will it update? YES it does. So the embed is 'live'.

The process seems to mash, at least in the browser, the text's formatting. PDF is the way to go.

Within Drop Box you can share the 'send a file' folder so that just that folder appears on collaborators Drop Box accounts.

Jot Form will permit the sending of zipped folders, multiple files and .movs.

Quite neat.