Upload from iPhone : We did it!

[John A]

May be old news, we were excited.

Scenario:

Our field techs use iPhones to document installations of various wireless equipment and site configurations in the field. Its really important in our business (large regional WISP) since sending a tech out to a location 50 or 100 miles removed is an expensive business. We need to be able to troubleshoot as much as possible remotely and a big part of that is equipment location/setup.

This was causing us to store tons of photos in our already huge FMP database. SuperContainer to the rescue!

Except you can't upload out of fmp go. Ouch!

Solution:

So we are using PicUp (http://picupapp.com/). This intercepts any URL requests for the space 'fileupload://' and does some magic.

Then its just a matter of embedded a button that sends the right url to an Open URL script step.

(generic example: fileupload://new?callbackURL=http://picupapp.com/done.html&referrername=Picup%20Scratchpad&referrerfavicon=http%3A//picupapp.com/favicon.ico&purpose=Select%20a%20sample%20image%20for%20the%20Picup%20Scratchpad%20tool.&debug=true)

Our specific URL posts to a listener on our server which, based on some parameters (not above) sticks the file into the right place for SuperContainer which the client then can view.

Elegant? Somewhat. Does it work? Heck yea.

Anyone have alternate solves for this?