saving the author name

[Brian Hendrickson]

Hi World Outline-ers,

I'm new to Outlining and am finding my way around the OPML Editor
tools. If anyone can offer recommended reading for those unfamiliar
with "roots" and "nodetypes" - i'm all ears! :-)

Here's a question: when I browse to my /roots page and click the
little gear icon for the one root that I have, I can set my Author
Name, but when I edit the post, it seems to delete those settings and
I have to go put them in again. Am I doing something wrong?

And another question -- clearly I can create Blog posts, but is each
blog post a root? In other words, do I create a new blog post by
adding a new root?

Thanks, I will do some reading in the archives and will probably
figure it out!

-- Brian

[Dave Winer]

Are you hitting the Submit button?

http://scripting.com/images/2012/03/10/submitButton.gif

Give us the actual steps you do, otherwise it's pretty hard to say what the problem might be.

I'm going to write a howto to answer your other questions..

Dave

[Lloyd Davis]

I have this problem too.

I've written out the steps I take here:

http://worknotes.lloyddavis.co.uk/march2012/140312/authorownerIssue

Thanks

ll

[Phil Ulrich]

I can verify I'm having the same issue - following the same steps as Lloyd, getting the same results.

In fact, it looks like I've *never* gotten the author or email fields to stick to *any* root, going back at least couple months.

[Dave Jones]

Sounds like you haven't set the username pref in your local opml editor.  Misc, prefs, basic settings, username.

DJ

[Lloyd Davis]

Doh!

OK fixed. Thanks Dave

On Mar 14, 10:39 pm, Dave Jones <sec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like you haven't set the username pref in your local opml editor.
> Misc, prefs, basic settings, username.
>
> DJ

[Brian Hendrickson]

that fixed it for me, too. thanks!

[Dave Winer]

Dave, can you summarize the issue for me.

What was the problem they were reporting, what was the workaround/fix?

Dave

[Phil Ulrich]

Looks like that fixed it for me, too. Thanks Dave(s)!

At the risk of looking foolish: why do we have the option on the world outline page to set an author on a per-root basis, if it's just going to be overwritten with what is (or in this case, isn't) set in the OPML Editor on the desktop?

[Dave Winer]

Because it's not finished. :-)

This has been a R&D project that's turning into a product.

One step at a time.

And that's why I want to understand what the problem is.

And I totally appreciate that Dave Jones picked up the ball here, and that you guys have decided to join the community. These are all very good signs.

Dave

[Dave Jones]

Sure thing.  They had left the username pref blank on their local copy of the opml editor, so it was overwriting the author field with a blank every time they edited a root and saved it from their desktop.

DJ

[Dave Winer]

Got it. Thanks!

[Dave Winer]

The author name and email address are now maintained across saves.

http://worknotes.scripting.com/march2012/32312ByDw/authorNameProblem/

Dave

On Mar 14, 7:34 pm, Dave Winer <dave.wi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Got it. Thanks!
>
> On Wednesday, March 14, 2012, Dave Jones <sec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sure thing.  They had left the username pref blank on their local copy of
>
> the opml editor, so it was overwriting the author field with a blank every
> time they edited a root and saved it from their desktop.
>
>
>
> > DJ
>

[Adam Curry]

Tested the process as described in the worknote.

Author name remained across saves to the root.

Fix worked.

AC