Publishing and Sharing Files

Did you know using CrushFTP 5, you can easily share files with other people? Just enable the "Publish/Share" feature on a folder and use the flash based WebInterface.

Login, upload a few files, then right click and select "Share...". Now enter a few details such as their email address, some comments int eh body, and your done.

They get a random self expiring account generated, tied to your account, with access to only the items you shared with them.

Find out more on the CrushFTP5 Wiki: http://crushftp.com/crush5wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Sharing

CrushTask

A brand new plugin is coming to CrushFTP called CrushTask. As for now, I plan on this being a free plugin. It adds a complex task system for CrushFTP events on uploads or downloads.

For example, some images just arrived from a designer of yours. You setup an event to run a CrushTask set of tasks.

Move the files to a new location.

Execute an external task to create thumbnails of the images.

Copy the files to several other FTP servers.

Wait for simultaneous copies to complete.

Send an email notification to a coworker about the files being posted.

Delete the original files.

You get the idea? Additionally, third party hooks are going to be allowed with the plugin as well.

With the rewritten event system in CrushFTP 5, events are more reliable too!

CrushFTP is under very active development!

I sort of forgot about this blog. A couple people mentioned that it looked like CrushFTP wasn't under development anymore since the blog postings were so old.

This isn't true!

Every day, CrushFTP is under development. Since 2007 there have been hundreds of features added to CrushFTP4. CrushFTP 5 was released in August of 2009, and is under active development as well.

I'll start using posts here to make brief notes about changes and new builds of CrushFTP going forward.