Add Your Own Photo eCards?

AllisonCosta

Hi Folks,

This might be a silly question but is there a way for users to upload their own photos on an eCard? We are doing a Mother's Day eCard for our pedi hospital and we like the idea of people being about to add their own photo to the eCard with our hospital messaging on it.  Is this possible?

Thanks!

~Allison

Noah Cooper

Out of the box, there's no way for a user to upload a photo on an Ecard form, but it would be possible to do so using a third-party image hosting API like Imageshack's (http://code.google.com/p/imageshackapi/wiki/ImageshackAPI) and a little JavaScript. Basically, you'd need to add an additional form input to the top of the Ecard form for the file upload, and using JavaScript post to the API in an iframe (I'd do so using the YUI Connection Manager) and set a Convio session variable with the image URL from the API response. If what I just said makes no sense or seems like its outside your staff's technical expertise, this is something Convio's Services team could help implement for you. If you're interested in going that route, I'd contact your Account Manager to have the project scoped. I'll try to get an example posted here on the Community with some code snippets when I have a chance, though no promises that'll be done before Mother's Day.

AllisonCosta

Noah Cooper:

Out of the box, there's no way for a user to upload a photo on an Ecard form, but it would be possible to do so using a third-party image hosting API like Imageshack's (http://code.google.com/p/imageshackapi/wiki/ImageshackAPI) and a little JavaScript. Basically, you'd need to add an additional form input to the top of the Ecard form for the file upload, and using JavaScript post to the API in an iframe (I'd do so using the YUI Connection Manager) and set a Convio session variable with the image URL from the API response. If what I just said makes no sense or seems like its outside your staff's technical expertise, this is something Convio's Services team could help implement for you. If you're interested in going that route, I'd contact your Account Manager to have the project scoped. I'll try to get an example posted here on the Community with some code snippets when I have a chance, though no promises that'll be done before Mother's Day.

Thanks so much Noah! I am checking in with my Account Manager to see how feasible this would be for us.

I appreciate your help, as always!

~Allison