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One exception for excel export is that the available list of excel documents is not supported in this release. This means images can be exported into a new excel document. They cannot be exported into existing excel document.
Applications
Application integration helps to interact with applications from Pixtel directly without requiring to switch between applications to share images. A set of three integrations are included in Pixtel. These are Email, FTP and Jira. Email integration helps to send an email with image attachments. FTP integration allows uploading documents to a selected 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 the browser. This greatly improves the productivity of Product Management, and Development and QA engineers when dealing with a large number of product/project screenshots.
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- Select an account from the drop-down and click Select button
- Click Add button to log in to an email account.
- Add New Account a window opens, shown below, a new Window for selecting Provider (e.g. Google, Yahoo, etc.), entering Display Name, Email Address, and Password.
- Click Test on Authenticate which validates the credentials or opens a separate browser for OAuth2 providers to authenticate.
- Click Save to save the details.
- Click Edit to modify previously saved email details
- Click Remove to remove any user account
- Enter recipient accounts in To, Cc and fill the Subject and Message
- Click Add Files to add any additional files from the directory. They need not be image files.
- Click Send to send email with the file attachments.
Note that some email providers reject large attachments. Please make sure the total size of attachments is less than the limit. Both Google and Office365 support OAuth OAuth2 and 2-step authentication. We are in the process of adding OAuth support for other providers.
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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Jira is used for issue tracking and project management. Images and captures in Pixtel 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, users can make one account as primary. Project names are filtered before creating or updating an issue. A link to the issue appears at the bottom which can be opened in the web browser. Jira integration significantly improves productivity especially for the users who use it for managing issues with image attachments. In order for Jira integration to work, Jira should be accessible and the Rest API should not be disabled. Integration supports two types of authentication: Basic authentication with API key based authentication that requires user id /password and OAuth1aAPI key. Other custom forms of authentications are not supported.
On clicking the Jira integration button in the share panel, Jira Account Settings form Manager window opens up as shown below:
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This window shows the
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list of Jira Accounts already configured. Click on Connect button to connect to Jira account for creating and updating issues. Click on Add/Update buttons to add/update a new account or update an account. Remove helps to remove an already registered account. Before adding a new account, please add a new API token in your Jira Cloud account settings online at https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens . Once you create a new API token, copy the token and paste it in API token field (3).
- In the Jira account settings form, a user has to fill Account Name (1) or select from the drop-down if already saved. Enter Jira Server URL , Username (2), and API Token (3). Click on Authenticatebutton (5) to connect and validate the account.
- Click Authenticate (5), it will check connection status & the message will be displayed. Loads Project Names where user can select any project from the drop-down.
- After the connection is successful, Select the projects that you can to include. Drop down button lists all available projects. Once the required projects are added, click Save Metadata (6), it saves the user details and loads project metadata.To remove any account details that are saved, Click Remove button.Click Connect to load metadata, if not already loaded. It then opens the Jira issue form.
Jira Issue form contains two tabs: Create Issue and Update Issue. The 'Create Issue' form helps to create a new issue and to attach all images. the 'Update Issue' form helps to search for an issue and attach images with comments. All attachments are added to the issues in the background as the upload speeds vary with Jira server. Sometimes, it takes a long time to upload.
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Sometimes, issue cannot be created using simple form due to mandatory fields. In that case, please use the advanced form to create the instance.
Update Issue:
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Default values can be configured by selecting Advanced Create Issue mode and selecting the Default Field Config checkbox in the bottom as shown below.
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Default Value Configuration
Identify the field value that needs to be saved as default after checking the 'Default Field Config' checkbox. A set of default configuration buttons show up next to each of the fields. By selecting the type of setting from the drop-down, shown above, click on the gear icon to save the default value. Next time, when an issue is created, those fields that have default values get prefilled. This greatly improves productivity, reducing the form of filling time while creating an issue.
Social Media
Pixtel 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 is one of the most popular social media applications. Millions of people post messages with images every day. Pixtel 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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Facebook Form
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Note: Facebook integration is disabled. We are working with them to obtain the required permissions to enable it. You can use Drag Me to drag and drop the picture to Facebook message in the browser.
Twitter is another popular social media application used by millions of users for posting tweets with images. The Twitter form is similar to Facebook form except that message is validated for the size to make sure tweet is acceptable.
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Twitter Form
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as shown below.
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Identify the field value that needs to be saved as default after checking the 'Default Field Config' checkbox. A set of default configuration buttons show up next to each of the fields. By selecting the type of setting from the drop-down, shown above, click on the gear icon to save the default value. Next time, when an issue is created, those fields that have default values get prefilled. This greatly improves productivity, reducing the form of filling time while creating an issue.
Social Media
Pixtel provides integrations to social media applications such as YouTube and Vimeo. Similar to other integrations, these help to post videos on YouTube and Vimeo.
YouTube
YouTube is a popular social media application used by millions of users for posting videos. This integration helps to upload the video content to a YouTube channel and make it available for public access. Recorded videos can be selected and seamlessly uploaded to your YouTube account. Please make sure you follow copyright laws for uploading video content.
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