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00:05 hello everybody this is Joe workman and
00:08 today I'd like to introduce you to the
00:10 new dispatch to server stack The
00:14 Dispatch stack allows you to add
00:15 beautiful file upload forms to your
00:17 website there could be a lot of great
00:20 uses for this whether it's exchanging
00:22 vows with your customers or maybe
00:24 handling a monthly photo contest so your
00:27 contestants can upload their photos to
00:29 your service let's jump on in and see it
00:32 in action so I have a dispatch form here
00:36 and all I'm going to do is I have two
00:38 images here that I'm going to drag and
00:39 drop directly on here now that
00:42 drag-and-drop functionality is only
00:44 supported currently in html5 browsers
00:47 essentially that's all the latest
00:49 versions of the major browsers out there
00:51 with the exception of Internet Explorer
00:53 that looks to become an Internet
00:55 Explorer 10 so we can't wait for that
00:58 now once we have added our files into
01:00 the file Q we can go ahead and click the
01:03 upload button as you see these were
01:07 really small files they uploaded
01:09 extremely fast but on you'll notice that
01:12 the once they were completed the
01:15 background color changed to green and we
01:17 got a nice completed message now let's
01:20 jump on in and look at some of the
01:22 dispatch settings so let's look at how
01:24 we're going to set up the dispatch
01:25 server stack now in most cases you're
01:28 going to want to upload files to your
01:30 local web server so the actual server
01:33 that your website is hosted on there are
01:37 a couple options available here we have
01:40 local host and local host web root now
01:44 the default option of local host web
01:46 root means that the folder will be
01:48 relative to your web address so in this
01:53 instance / uploads would relate to a
01:55 folder at the root of my website called
01:58 uploads this means that any time a
02:02 customer would upload using this form
02:04 the file would go into my web site /
02:07 uploads and then all of the files would
02:10 be listed there
02:13 by using just localhost this is the
02:16 actual full directory path from the root
02:18 of the server itself to the folder where
02:23 you want your files to be uploaded to
02:25 this is convenient if you actually want
02:28 to store the files outside of your
02:31 website directory this could be more
02:34 secure if they are sensitive files that
02:36 you don't want publicly accessible on
02:38 the web now our last option is remote
02:43 SFTP server and what this allows you to
02:46 do is it allows you to actually upload a
02:48 file from your web server and ship it
02:51 over to a different server over a
02:55 protocol called SFTP this is secure file
02:59 transfer protocol now just caution this
03:02 is not the same thing as ftp while it is
03:06 only one letter different it is very
03:09 different in terms of the technology it
03:11 is secure and it only supports SFTP not
03:16 ftp so to configure this you simply just
03:19 put in the name of your server the port
03:21 which is the default is 22 your username
03:25 and password for that account and then
03:28 the folder at which you want the files
03:30 to be sent to on the remote server so
03:36 that's all there is to it for setting up
03:37 the dispatch server stack let's go ahead
03:39 and jump in and look at some of the
03:41 other great features available inside
03:43 dispatch now if you are familiar with
03:46 version 1 of dispatch you probably
03:48 recall that it really was just meant for
03:50 uploading files however we've really
03:53 taken your feedback and I'm glad to say
03:56 that dispatch to now supports full blown
03:59 form fields so that not only can you get
04:04 files from your customers but you could
04:06 also get their name and email some notes
04:08 and also have a passphrase or human test
04:11 so that you know you can really control
04:14 who's uploading files for you now you'll
04:18 notice as I added these fields to my
04:20 form that a bunch of settings were
04:22 revealed we can require fields
04:26 and then also give a full blown
04:28 validation error if that field is not
04:31 provided by the customer you can also if
04:33 you don't want to use my out of the out
04:35 of the box labels let's say you want to
04:37 have um you know it's a class you know
04:41 what class are you in okay and this is
04:45 you know what's your address or
04:48 something of that nature you can
04:50 customize these forms to really suit
04:52 your needs so if we look at the
04:55 passphrase field it really has become a
04:57 dual purpose field now a by default it
05:00 is a password field so that you can
05:02 define a password and then users have to
05:04 type in that password in order to upload
05:07 a file now what's really nice is that
05:09 this is actually a password field we can
05:12 go ahead and as you see as we type it
05:14 now is the text is now hidden just as if
05:17 it was a password however if you didn't
05:21 want to use it as a password let's say
05:23 we wanted to use it as a human test you
05:25 can go ahead and uncheck that users
05:27 password then you can simply change the
05:29 label to say you know what is one plus
05:33 one of course then you would put your
05:35 answer as to now by clicking on custom
05:39 field styles you'll notice that we now
05:42 have a plethora of ways to really style
05:44 the actual fields to our liking now one
05:47 other setting is split form if you click
05:50 on split form you'll notice that
05:52 actually the form and the file field Q
05:56 are now separated and what's great is
05:59 this also supports full responsive
06:01 design so that if this form were on a
06:04 iphone or a smaller with device it would
06:08 actually respond so that it shrank it
06:10 would shrink down to one column instead
06:12 of being too now the next settings group
06:15 allows you to really customize the look
06:17 and feel of the file Q this is the drop
06:20 area that contains all of the entries
06:22 that are going to be uploaded to our
06:24 service moving on will notice that the
06:27 next section deals with button Styles
06:29 here you can change the labels the size
06:32 and the coloring of the buttons now
06:36 these buttons that ship with dispatch
06:37 are nice they are rather
06:40 Lane so we actually gave you a great
06:42 ability to use any button stack within
06:46 dispatch to do that simply go to button
06:49 style and say use button stack when you
06:53 select this you'll notice that there are
06:55 two drop areas inside this these drop
06:59 areas is you can place any button stack
07:01 that you like I obviously recommend my
07:05 really powerful and flexible sweet
07:07 button stack now in the last couple
07:09 settings groups is where the real fun
07:11 happens dispatch has a bunch of action
07:15 settings that you that can be triggered
07:17 once an upload is complete you can
07:20 redirect to a specific URL and you can
07:23 specify actually a special effect stack
07:26 to be launched or unveiled the next
07:30 option allows you to upload a meta file
07:32 along with the actual file that the
07:35 customer uploaded this metafile is a
07:38 text is a plain text file that contains
07:41 all of the data that the user typed into
07:45 the form now this metadata file is
07:48 actually named the same exact name as
07:51 the file uploaded with a dot txt
07:53 extension after that you can also send
07:59 an email this is great because now users
08:02 can upload data to your service and then
08:05 you will get an email once they do now
08:08 that email will contain not only the
08:11 name of the file but also all of the
08:13 contents of the form that the user typed
08:16 in now the last feature set in on upload
08:19 complete is the ability to rename files
08:23 this is great because if your customer
08:25 uploads a file with the same name that
08:28 maybe someone else had already uploaded
08:31 dispatch will actually take care of that
08:33 and rename the files so that no files
08:36 will get deleted or overridden by
08:38 accident now we have an extensive set of
08:41 rename rules where you can maybe app end
08:44 of the date and time stamp of the actual
08:47 upload time you can append a unique ID
08:49 and you can also actually take the input
08:52 fields from
08:53 in the form that the user typed in and
08:56 rename the file to contain those fields
09:01 now in advanced forum logic we have the
09:04 ability to auto upload files what this
09:06 means is as soon as a file is added into
09:10 dispatch it will automatically be
09:13 uploaded to your service the user does
09:15 not need to click upload it will
09:16 automatically be sent you also have the
09:21 ability to limit file extensions this is
09:23 a comma delimited list of file types so
09:26 if you wanted to accept only images you
09:29 could do jpg comma PNG comma and all of
09:33 the other formats okay um you can define
09:36 a max size so the maximum size of the
09:39 file that you want to be allowed to be
09:40 uploaded and of course the number of
09:43 uploads so how many simultaneous uploads
09:45 do you want to limit a user from
09:47 uploading at one time well thank you
09:50 very much for watching everybody I hope
09:52 you enjoyed the new dispatch stack it's
09:53 a really amazing update a lot of blood
09:56 sweat and tears went into this one so go
09:59 out and make your websites great thanks
10:01 everybody bye
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