July 30, 2008
ScribeFire's New "Publishing Options" Dialog
Filed under: Feature, How-To, ScribeFire -- Christopher Finke @ 09:00amIn ScribeFire 2.3, we've reworked the way that you tell ScribeFire whether your post is a draft, an edit, a page, or a new entry. We think that this will solve quite a few problems related to the confusion surrounding exactly how to configure these settings.
- After you have created an entry in ScribeFire and would like to send it to your blog, click the "Publish to 'My Blog'" button:
This is the first step for publishing a new post, saving a draft, creating a new page, or editing an existing page. If you want to send content to your blog in any form, click this button.
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After you click the "Publish..." button, a dialog will appear with options for the post:
- Select what kind of post you're saving here, and click OK to send it to your blog.
We hope that this new workflow will clean up the layout of the editor and make it easier to understand exactly what you're sending to your blog. Feel free to comment below with any criticism or suggestions on this topic.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Sounds promising. At the moment, every single blog post is stored as a note, maybe that will cure that. (selecting more than 1 note to delete would be helpful)
July 30th, 2008 at 10:27 am
I can't select publish as an edit of the original entry when I edited an old post.
Why?
July 30th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Sorry - dont't like it!
I use this a lot and now I have to confirm each Post *two* times which will get annoying real fast...
Suggestion:
Make it possible to have a default option in the window dialogue, i.e. a checkbox "Make this my default option. You can always change this later in Preferences " under "Save entry in Drafts".
What do you think?
July 30th, 2008 at 11:09 am
@nofoghu: I had the same problem, but only the first time. Try it again!
In my view ScribeFire is now a perfect tool! Only a little detail: the "Publish" options in the German version are partly in English.
July 30th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
still won't work with my MT instalation. some times it publishes as a post, sometimes it publishes as a draft, apparently with no logic behind it, no matter what i choose. it's kind of a pain having to open the MT page afterwards to publish the post...
July 30th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I whole agree with Alberto. The new workflow gets in the way of posting, it makes it cumbersome to have hunting for the popup (didn't we learn something from all that popup blockers? you should *never* throw a popup in the way of the user goals). Didn't you try this with real users before publishing the change for everybody?
Please disable this ASAP. Is there a way to downgrade to the previous version of Scribefire?
July 30th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Publish as edit button does not work in my Firefox 3.01?
July 31st, 2008 at 2:50 am
yes.. publish as edit does not work here either.. FF 3.01
July 31st, 2008 at 4:23 am
Uh-oh...glad I read the comments first! I use Scribefire almost exclusively, and I don't have time for anything to mess up!
I hope I can wait before using the new version...it didn't install automatically, did it?
July 31st, 2008 at 6:15 am
I cant' seem to post with the new update.
"The blogger.com server failed with the following message:
The prefix "o" for element "o:p" is not bound".
Any solution?
July 31st, 2008 at 9:21 am
Well, its terrible to have to click twice to confirm, so I would be for a way to turn this off....
And this update screwed up the post times for me, It sends it not as a post, or as a draft, but as a scheduled post, scheduled to post 2 hours in the future! I can edit the date stamp in the options but it still schedules it for 2 hours later. It will post as a draft if I ask it to, but either way i have to go to the blogger dashboard to edit and post the message.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:52 am
same problem. publish as edit does not work here. please update it
July 31st, 2008 at 11:57 am
Can someone here tell me how to solve my problem? I can not use "Publish as an Edit..." Option from this feature. I need it to repost my edited-post. Unfortunately, It wasn't work for me
July 31st, 2008 at 4:12 pm
For everyone reporting that "Publish as Edit" is not working: what exactly does not work? Does it not let you select that option? Does it publish it as a new post even though you selected "Publish as Edit"? What blogging service are you using?
If at all possible, create a new bug at http://code.google.com/p/scribefire/issues/entry so that we can better track the problems with this feature.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I too cannot Publish as Edit. The option shows up, but it's grayed out, so I can't click on it. I've created a new bug at the supplied page, Christopher.
August 1st, 2008 at 8:25 am
this thing is not working!
"publish as an edit of the original entry scribefire" is a lie!
fix that i really like scribe fire but ill have quit with it. FIX
August 1st, 2008 at 2:51 pm
alvaro, Evan: I cannot duplicate this error. Are you selecting an entry from the list in the "Entries" tab, making your changes, and then clicking Publish? If so, are you doing anything else in between?
August 1st, 2008 at 10:05 pm
The terminology used in the new dialogue box is confusing and misleading. "Publish" means "to make public"; to put it out where everybody can see it. Either you publish something or you save it as a draft; you can't do both. Checking the Save Entry in Drafts box should clear the "Publish as a new . . ." button; instead they both remain checked, so the user isn't sure whether the new entry is actually appearing on the blog or not.
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:35 am
The Font Colour can't be changed. It's greyed out. Y?
August 3rd, 2008 at 5:12 am
I have the same problem with "cannot Publish as Edit". the option is there, but it's grayed out and i can't click on it, it happens after the update to 2.3. when i edited an old entry and try to repost it.
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
Hi iám back again :), i think i have a temporary solution for the anoying "cannot Publish as Edit" bug :
Go to settings [it's the gear like icon on the left] and then go to "General" and set your "By default, open ScribeFire in... " to "a new window". For some reason it work for me after that :).
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:30 am
Sorry to bother again, i forgot to say that the "cannot Publish as Edit" bug, only appear when i set my setting to : "By default, open ScribeFire in... " to "a new tab", so i guess maybe it has something to do with the Firefox tab, but iám not sure though :)
August 5th, 2008 at 3:53 am
yup it works if we use "new window",, but i suggest to fix the problem. *waiting for the update*
August 9th, 2008 at 6:43 am
About "publish as an edit", to sum up on my side:
Using Firefox 3.0.1, for a Google blog
Works if : SribeFire in a new window or sharing the screen
Don't work if SribeFire in a new tab.
Regards,
August 10th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
I have to say I hate the confirmation to publish a blog, it'd be much better if there was an option to disable it.
August 10th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
I guess I'm not very bright because I cannot figure out how to upload an image from my desktop. What's the API/FTP?
August 12th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I agree with alberto as well. Distinctly do not like the new pop up. I keep forgetting it is there and wonder why my screen is frozen (I use dual monitors and usually FF is in the right monitor but the pop up comes up in the upper left corner of the left monitor, so I don't see it.)
Would love to have the option to turn this off and just let my post publish on the first keystroke. The old system was not a problem for me at all.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:12 am
I agree with the comments above. I find the terminology now in use baffling (and I'm a professional writer). And I've also had ScribeFire publish a post immediately rather than as a draft, which is what I wanted. I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if I simply don't understand the new system.
Personally I would much prefer ScribeFire to return to having a 'Publish as Draft' button on the front page - this would be both quicker to use and easier to understand. Like others, I would like to return to an earlier version of ScribeFire which includes this feature if possible.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I'll add my $.02. I don't like the new confirmation dialog box either. I was just fine with the boxes on the bottom to publish as draft or just publish. Don't know why people were confused with those boxes, as they made perfect sense to me. You've just added an extra, unnecessary step in publishing. I like the one-click much better. Roll it back, please!!!
I've never had a problem with the edit post option. I think it works great and love it to death. I'm especially happy with the image insertion now (it's been around for a little while, I'm just slow to comment).
Overall, though, it's still the best and easiest way to blog. :)
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:21 am
please, enable editing post slugs for wordpress blogs, it is very usefull for non-english bloggers
August 26th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I'd echo Alan's comments (#18) above. Other than that, no problems so far. Thanks for all the hard work, I'm sure it's kinda thankless. I like Scribfire!
September 4th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Ok, I'm confused. What is this scheduled thing and how do I turn it off? All I want to do is write my post and have it publish when I push publish. I read someplace it's something to do with a time setting but I can't figure out how or what to change to get it to publish immediately. Why would anyone want to wait to have their post hit their blog? Not in this fast moving news cycle.
September 8th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I can't delete a post from a Drupal 5.9 install with ScribeFire, nor can I edit a post.