I'm trying out the Beta of uBlogsy 1.4 in an installation of Umbraco 4.7 - looks pretty good so far.
However, when I add a comment on a post, and then approve it from the dashboard, I get an error message:
Server Error in '/' Application.
String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
Any idea what's causing this?
Also, a few other questions:
Should year / month folders be created automatically? They don't seem to be for me, when creating a post under the tree (right click on posts, create etc)! The date folder is created from the dashboard though
The post date for posts created via the tree seems to be set to 2011-01-01 - in the last release, I'm sure this defaulted to current date / time which was much better! When posting from the dashboard or from within the month folder, the date is set to the 1st of the month - is it possible to set the default to the current date when creating new posts?
I'll be using this with several blogs in the same installation - it seems that it's only really possible to have one blog structure beneath each site root node. Is that correct? Otherwise, posting from the dashboard would presumably not work?
There will be a number of users who add posts and administer comments - is it possible to restrict which blogs each user can edit via the dashboard functionality (e.g. approving comments etc), or will all users who see the dashboard see all the details for all blogs in the installation?
Tags - the list of all tags displayed when creating a post seem to include all tags from all blogs within the installation. Is there some way to segregate these so that only those tags which relate to that blog are displayed, rather than all tags from all blogs?
Finally, when do you expect v1.4 to be finalised and out of beta?
Your questions regarding date and folder creation should be answered by this screen cas http://www.screenr.com/OL1s
Yes you can have multiple blogs. You just need the landing node for each one. The next version will have a dropdownlist on the dashboard to select blogs to approve comments from.
The dashboard is not user specific. However if you know your user, you can figure out which dropdown item to hide/disable using jquery.
As for tags....no....it is doctype specific, but not blog specific.
Thanks for getting back to me. Any thoughts on the error message I mentioned?
Also, I've looked at the screencast - that's definitely not the behaviour I'm experiencing as explained above, but was along the lines I thought I should be expecting! That seems to create day folders too (as well as month) which is not happening at all for me.
The screencast also shows the General Settings tab - in my installation, I have just one field in there (Default Author) - the screencast shows many other fields too??
Re tags - the scenario I'm working with is sports clubs with different sporting sections - so there may be a blog for the football section and another for the tennis section. The tags for each would be mostly separate from each other. For that application, is there anything you can suggest for separating the tags out? I know that in Blog for Umbraco there's a way to add a category to each blog and then the tags are associated with that category (and therefore associated just with that blog) - is something similar possible here?
So is 2.0 ready now? If so, where can I find it, as the project page still seems to be showing 1.33 as the latest stable release and 1.4 beta as the next version??
Did you find what was causing the error I reported? Unless I've missed something, I can't see any answer to that one.
Re tags, unfortunately I don't know where to begin creating a new tag control - it would be really helpful if you could explain how to do this?
If it's imminent, then I'll wait for it - but if it's weeks or months away, then I probably need to find another solution for my project, as we need something up and running fairly soon.
Commment approval error
I'm trying out the Beta of uBlogsy 1.4 in an installation of Umbraco 4.7 - looks pretty good so far.
However, when I add a comment on a post, and then approve it from the dashboard, I get an error message:
Server Error in '/' Application.
String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
Any idea what's causing this?
Also, a few other questions:
Finally, when do you expect v1.4 to be finalised and out of beta?
Thanks
Allan
Hi Allen
Your questions regarding date and folder creation should be answered by this screen cas http://www.screenr.com/OL1s
Yes you can have multiple blogs. You just need the landing node for each one. The next version will have a dropdownlist on the dashboard to select blogs to approve comments from.
The dashboard is not user specific. However if you know your user, you can figure out which dropdown item to hide/disable using jquery.
As for tags....no....it is doctype specific, but not blog specific.
Hi Anthony
Thanks for getting back to me. Any thoughts on the error message I mentioned?
Also, I've looked at the screencast - that's definitely not the behaviour I'm experiencing as explained above, but was along the lines I thought I should be expecting! That seems to create day folders too (as well as month) which is not happening at all for me.
The screencast also shows the General Settings tab - in my installation, I have just one field in there (Default Author) - the screencast shows many other fields too??
Re tags - the scenario I'm working with is sports clubs with different sporting sections - so there may be a blog for the football section and another for the tennis section. The tags for each would be mostly separate from each other. For that application, is there anything you can suggest for separating the tags out? I know that in Blog for Umbraco there's a way to add a category to each blog and then the tags are associated with that category (and therefore associated just with that blog) - is something similar possible here?
Thanks
Allan
Hi Allan
The 1.4b is not as up to date as the 2.0 one which is in the screen cast.
As far as tags is concerned. You can make your own tag control :)
Hi Anthony
So is 2.0 ready now? If so, where can I find it, as the project page still seems to be showing 1.33 as the latest stable release and 1.4 beta as the next version??
Did you find what was causing the error I reported? Unless I've missed something, I can't see any answer to that one.
Re tags, unfortunately I don't know where to begin creating a new tag control - it would be really helpful if you could explain how to do this?
Thanks
Allan
2.0 is not ready yet.
Regarding the crash...do you have any custom examine indexes?
Regarding writing your own tag control... I don't suggest you try unless you're strong at c# and javascript.
Hi Anthony
OK - when is 2.0 likely to be ready?
If it's imminent, then I'll wait for it - but if it's weeks or months away, then I probably need to find another solution for my project, as we need something up and running fairly soon.
Thanks
Allan
2.0 beta will be up soon.
The date for the full version is dependent on how many people I can get to try/test it.
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