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Create Forms to Receive Files on Your Dropbox

54 points by aytekin 16y ago

Cherad 16y ago
Hi aytekin, nginx is throwing quite a few 500 errors on jotform.com at the moment. Just thought I'd let you know. Nice product, I like the customer-centric attitude. I could do with a sample form demo though, vimeo is painfully slow for me in the UK for some reason so the video demonstrations won't play.
- Cherad 16y ago
  Ah, there is a demo on the homepage. Ignore that, I hadn't noticed it was a landing page within the site.
- aytekin 16y ago
  We have load balanced servers so I'm surprised nginx wasn't able to handle the traffic. I will check the configuration once the traffic levels are low. I must have done something wrong in the configuration.
rmoriz 16y ago
Disable popup-blocker? really?
- aytekin 16y ago
  To complete integration we open Dropbox login form in a new window. Since you will enter your Dropbox password, it should be in a new pop-up window so you can see that the domain name of the site is dropbox.com. On one of our Usertesting.com tests, a tester clicked on the button and nothing happened. She did not see the "enable pop-ups" message on the browser and was not able to complete the integration. That's why we added a check to see if the user has problems with opening the window and we show that warning message.
  - th 16y ago
    Chrome caught the popup for me. You might want to consider opening the window without specifying parameters: window.open(href, windowname); Browsers often block popups if height and width are specified like this: window.open(href, windowname, 'width=450,height=400,scrollbars=yes');
kaylarose 16y ago
This is really cool. I like the form building interface when it's in full screen. Very nice design, snappy UI. However, I can't help but feel that you may want to make the "Quick Tools" section way more prominent than the other sections because it contains the most common fields people might use (and maybe move the file upload to this section). Edit: spelling
- aytekin 16y ago
  Thanks for your nice comments. :) In addition to contact forms, JotForm is used to create many other kinds of forms: Surveys, lead generation forms, Facebook forms, feedback buttons, application forms, PayPal forms. That's why we keep the default toolbox with generic fields and keep most commonly used fields on the Quick Tools toolbox. But, I am intrigued by your idea and we will definitely run some tests with it.
  - kaylarose 16y ago
    It all depends on who your 80% target market is (not who your power user market is). I assume its not people who read Hacker News (as most of them are just as likely to build forms from scratch). If your market is marginally techy - but not programmers - then I think you are probably spot on in the current iteration. It is very customizable, and you can build exactly what you need. If your market is non-techy types that only know how to copy/paste an embed tag, then you may need to test with some simplifications to the workflow. (See Wufoo, they are pretty good at this). Sorry if my feedback comes off as harsh. This exact idea has been on my "idea list" for a long time, and am really excited to see someone executing it in a nice way.
  - sushumna 16y ago
    Thanks alot for sharing this. Was looking for this for my webapp. Couldn't locate Facebook forms...pls help
    - aytekin 16y ago
      On the Form Builder, click on "Setup & Embed" toolbar and then click on "Embed Form" button and click on the Facebook icon. You will find further instructions there. http://www.jotform.com/help/22-Adding-Form-to-Facebook http://www.jotform.com/help/22-Adding-Form-to-Facebook
city41 16y ago
Very impressive. I have noticed a small bug though. When I drag an item into my form (a textbox for example) about 50% of the time it creates two of them. I am using Chrome 10.0.648.133 on Windows 7. What tech was used to create the form editor?
moblivu 16y ago
Well that changes everything! Users can now received files not only over multople computers bit over multiple devices! From a web form to your computer to your iPad! Brilliant!
sharat87 16y ago
How does one disable popup blocking in chrome 10? I searched for `popup` in the settings tab and nothing came up.

54 points by aytekin 16y ago

Hi aytekin, nginx is throwing quite a few 500 errors on jotform.com at the moment. Just thought I'd let you know. Nice product, I like the customer-centric attitude. I could do with a sample form demo though, vimeo is painfully slow for me in the UK for some reason so the video demonstrations won't play.

Cherad 16y ago
Ah, there is a demo on the homepage. Ignore that, I hadn't noticed it was a landing page within the site.
aytekin 16y ago
We have load balanced servers so I'm surprised nginx wasn't able to handle the traffic. I will check the configuration once the traffic levels are low. I must have done something wrong in the configuration.

rmoriz 16y ago

Disable popup-blocker? really?

aytekin 16y ago
To complete integration we open Dropbox login form in a new window. Since you will enter your Dropbox password, it should be in a new pop-up window so you can see that the domain name of the site is dropbox.com. On one of our Usertesting.com tests, a tester clicked on the button and nothing happened. She did not see the "enable pop-ups" message on the browser and was not able to complete the integration. That's why we added a check to see if the user has problems with opening the window and we show that warning message.
- th 16y ago
  Chrome caught the popup for me. You might want to consider opening the window without specifying parameters: window.open(href, windowname); Browsers often block popups if height and width are specified like this: window.open(href, windowname, 'width=450,height=400,scrollbars=yes');

kaylarose 16y ago

This is really cool. I like the form building interface when it's in full screen. Very nice design, snappy UI. However, I can't help but feel that you may want to make the "Quick Tools" section way more prominent than the other sections because it contains the most common fields people might use (and maybe move the file upload to this section). Edit: spelling

aytekin 16y ago
Thanks for your nice comments. :) In addition to contact forms, JotForm is used to create many other kinds of forms: Surveys, lead generation forms, Facebook forms, feedback buttons, application forms, PayPal forms. That's why we keep the default toolbox with generic fields and keep most commonly used fields on the Quick Tools toolbox. But, I am intrigued by your idea and we will definitely run some tests with it.
- kaylarose 16y ago
  It all depends on who your 80% target market is (not who your power user market is). I assume its not people who read Hacker News (as most of them are just as likely to build forms from scratch). If your market is marginally techy - but not programmers - then I think you are probably spot on in the current iteration. It is very customizable, and you can build exactly what you need. If your market is non-techy types that only know how to copy/paste an embed tag, then you may need to test with some simplifications to the workflow. (See Wufoo, they are pretty good at this). Sorry if my feedback comes off as harsh. This exact idea has been on my "idea list" for a long time, and am really excited to see someone executing it in a nice way.
- sushumna 16y ago
  Thanks alot for sharing this. Was looking for this for my webapp. Couldn't locate Facebook forms...pls help
  - aytekin 16y ago
    On the Form Builder, click on "Setup & Embed" toolbar and then click on "Embed Form" button and click on the Facebook icon. You will find further instructions there. http://www.jotform.com/help/22-Adding-Form-to-Facebook http://www.jotform.com/help/22-Adding-Form-to-Facebook

city41 16y ago

Very impressive. I have noticed a small bug though. When I drag an item into my form (a textbox for example) about 50% of the time it creates two of them. I am using Chrome 10.0.648.133 on Windows 7. What tech was used to create the form editor?

moblivu 16y ago

Well that changes everything! Users can now received files not only over multople computers bit over multiple devices! From a web form to your computer to your iPad! Brilliant!

sharat87 16y ago

How does one disable popup blocking in chrome 10? I searched for `popup` in the settings tab and nothing came up.