editing via crosspost?

[wembley]

Is it possible to edit older entries that were imported from LJ over to DW using the crosspost feature?

Because I just tried it three times... the first time, it did seem like something had changed... I was changing a public entry to a filtered one, and added a tag. The tag didn't appear, but the HTML had that "changed over from DW" look to it, and the entry became flocked, though not filtered.

But then I tried it twice more, once with a public entry, once with a flocked one, and nothing happend. So now I'm wondering if I was just imagining the first edit (or just confused one post for another in the midst of trying this) and it's not actually possible... or if it is possible, but buggy at the moment.

Has anyone else tried this? And if it's not something that's possible right now... could it be, in the future? Because it would be SO awesome to be able to re-tag in Dreamwidth and have it appear over at LJ, instead of having to re-tag two journals. :D

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Right now, the crossposter is not talking to the importer. This means if the entry was not created with DW's crossposter, then DW will cheerfully create a copy when editing, leading to two copies on LJ.

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[wembley]

Weird! It created a copy just the once for me, other times seemed to sort-of edit the entry, other times did nothing.

Also, by "right now, the crossposter is not talking to the importer," are you implying that it will one day be able to whisper sweet nothings to the importer? Because that would be SO AWESOME. :DDDD (If it's not possible, though, I completely understand.)

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[azurelunatic]

Hm. Since this is all so shiny and new (the importer is alpha, which is even more likely to have problems than beta), hit up http://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/5197.html and report what happened with you.

I am hoping that someday the two will have a very special friendship.

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[wembley]

and report what happened with you.

Done! *salute*

I am hoping that someday the two will have a very special friendship.

Hee! :D