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  1. Cloud Upload: All integrations that enable uploading images to cloud drives such as Google Drive, cloud applications such as OneNote and EverNote, and cloud storage in future are part of this section. This can be minimized by clicking on the header. 
  2. Export: All integrations that export images into document formats such as office Word, Excel and PowerPoint. 
  3. Applications: All application integrations for sharing images.
  4. Social Media: All social media applications for sharing images such as Facebook and Twitter.

Cloud Upload

Easy, fast and secure way of sharing images with multiple cloud platforms. GetPixit has been integrated with widely used cloud platforms like Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, and cloud applications OneNote and EverNote. User account is authenticated to add account information in GetPixit. After authentication, all the folders on the cloud drive are displayed in an explorer view. Multiple accounts can be added and user accounts will be cached in GetPixit to avoid future login. User can remove their account anytime; this deletes local user profile. All the files chosen for upload will be available and selection or deselection among files is also possible.  

Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, and Dropbox

The user interface and interaction for Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, and Dropbox is more or less same except how they allow authenticating users. In the following, Google drive integration is detailed as a reference. When clicked on google drive integration icon, , the following Google Drive window opens up with selected documents populated in the upload control on the right.

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OneDrive, Box and Dropbox also follow similar approach. They all open up IE browser for user authentication. If uploads are taking long time, they can be cancelled using Cancel button.         

OneNote (Online)

OneNote online lets you take notes and organize note pages in a web browser. OneNote and EverNote are two most popular note taking applications with millions of active users. Users can create new pages through GetPixit and attach images to that page. All sections and pages are listed under each division respectively. User can also provide page description in the description field.

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  1. Click Add to log in to Microsoft account, if no user is logged in. Dialogue box open where user can login to their account.
  2. If user has previously logged on, choose an account from the drop down.
  3. Click Select to choose an account.
  4. On clicking Refresh, sections and pages will be refreshed.
  5. To remove any user account from the application, click Remove.
  6. Under Notebook’s, choose the notebook associated with account. All the sections and pages related to selected notebook will be displayed.
  7. To create a new page check the box adjacent to Create New Page.
  8. User can add description to an image in Description box.
  9. Selected Images tab has all images chosen for upload.
  10. Click Upload to complete image upload.
  11. Cancel will cancel the active uploads and Close closes the window.

EverNote (Online)

EverNote online is similar to OneNote and helps users to select Notebooks and attach images to select notes. New note pages can be created directly from the application. One on the left side, instead of Sections and Pages as in OneNote, EverNote has Notebooks and Notes objects. Other than that rest of the functionality is similar to OneNote functionality. 

Office Export

Office Export helps to create professional looking documents in Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats exporting images, image titles and descriptions.

Word

GetPixit generates nicely-styled word document with few clicks exporting all selected images formatted with tittles and descriptions. Main export window is presented below:

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Exported word document looks like the following. By default, all word styles set are applied to titles and image headers.

 PowerPoint

PowerPoint export provides exporting images into nice looking presentations with out of the box power point templates. When PowerPoint share option is selected, the following dialog window opens.

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In PowerPoint settings tab, different options are available for Slide layout, Slide size and PowerPoint template. See the following presentation generated from the above settings:

Excel

Excel export supports exporting images to a single worksheet or export each image to each of the separate worksheets. Excel export is very helpful in case of export tax documents, financial statements, etc. where screenshot is required as a proof with calculations in the excel spreadsheet. See the excel export window:

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Application integration helps to interact with applications from GetPixit directly without requiring to switch between applications to share images. A set of three integrations are included in GetPixit. These are Email, FTP and Jira. Email integration helps to send an email with image attachments. FTP integration allows to upload documents to select FTP site. Jira integration is an important integration provided in the application. Jira integration allows users to create and update issues directly from the application without requiring to go back and forth with Jira application in browser. This greatly improves the productivity of Product Management, and Development and QA engineers when dealing with the large number of product/project screenshots.

Mail

There are different providers for email integration. User can choose desired provider and fill-in the necessary credentials to login to their account. Recipients' address can be entered or chosen from suggestions in drop down which comes from the saved contact list. By default, using a template, email subject and message gets generated along with a list of images to be attached. These templates can be edited in User preferences→ Integrations interface. 

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  1. Select an account from the drop down and click Select button
  2. Click Add button to log into email account.
    1. Add New Account window opens, see below, select Provider (e.g. Google, Yahoo etc.), enter Display Name, Email Address, Password.
    2. Click Test which validates the credentials or opens a separate browser for OAuth2 providers after.
    3. Click Save to save the details.
  3. Click Edit to modify previously saved email details
  4. Click Remove to remove any user account
  5. Enter recipient accounts in To, Cc and fill the Subject and Message                                                           
  6. Click Add Files to add any additional files from directory. They need not be image files.
  7. Click Send to complete image upload.

FTP

FTP integration facilitates uploading files to an FTP server. All the folders that have permissions show up on the left. Choose a folder and share the images. FTP window is presented below:

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  1. Click Add, FTP Connection window opens, enter FTP server details and click "Connect" button. Click “Cancel” button to close the connection window.
  2. If user has previously logged on, choose an account from drop down.
  3. Click “Select” to choose an account.
  4. On clicking “Refresh”, folders will be refreshed.
  5. To remove an user account click “Remove”.
  6. All the folders in box will be displayed.
  7. Click “Add Files” to add any additional files from directory.
  8. Click “Upload” to FTP images.

Jira

Jira is used for issue tracking and project management. Images and captures in GetPixit can be used to create a Jira issue or update an existing issue. Jira accounts are authenticated and saved in the application for future login. With multiple accounts, user can make one account as primary. Project names are filtered before creating or updating an issue. A link to the issue appears at bottom which can be opened in the web browser. Jira integration significantly improves the productivity especially for the users who use it for managing issues with image attachments. In order for Jira integration work, Jira should be accessible and the Rest API should not be disabled. Integration supports two types of authentication: Basic authentication with user id/password and OAuth1a. Other custom forms of authentications are not supported. 

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Jira Issue form contains two tabs: Create Issue and Update Issue. Create issue form helps to create a new issue and attach all images and update form helps to search for an issue and attach images with comment. All attachments are added to the issues in the background as the upload speeds vary with Jira server and sometimes it takes long time to upload.

Create Issue:

See below, Jira Create Issue - Advanced Form:

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Update Issue:

  1. In Update Issue form, user can Search for issues with projects, status, issue types, issue id, reporter any text present in the project.
  2. Filters present in project can be applied in Filters
  3. From the search result, user can select for particular issue from drop down in Issues tab and click Select.
  4. Click Update button to update the selected issue

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GetPixit provides integrations to social media applications such as Facebook and Twitter. Similar to other integrations, these help to post messages with images on Facebook and Twitter. 

Facebook

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Facebook is one of the most popular social media applications. Millions of people post messages with images everyday. GetPixit helps to make that task easier without requiring to switch between applications. Facebook integration window is very similar to other integration windows as shown below:

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