Semagic

[alittlebirdy]

Hi, I hope its ok to ask this here, but I am using Semagic to post to DW and posting is working, and crossposting works fine too. But the "edit friends" section doesn't appear to be working. I know from the wiki that we can't retrieve custom groups through it, but should we be able to retrieve just a list of subscribers? Or is DW's code too different and the friend management through semagic is something just not able to be done? If I click "update from server" it appears to connect, send and recieve data (I do not get an error message at all and I can see the numbers showing it is transmiting data in the client dialogue box) but I'm not getting any results.

Its not a problem if it doesn't work at all. I just want to make sure I'm not just doing something wrong...

Comments

[denise]

No, unfortunately you can't do anything involving "friend" management through Semagic, because our code is entirely different.

[alittlebirdy]

ahh, ok. thankyou. :)

[wychwood]

That's probably because of the way DW handles subscriptions and the like - there's not "friending" in the same way. You'd have to ask the people who make Semagic to support the functionality, though, it's not something that DW can change for you.

[ardhra]

You also can't add tags to a post in Semagic, which is strange. I don't think tags were changed from LJ in any substantial way.

[alittlebirdy]

I've been using tags with no problems in semagic...

[ardhra]

I just fired it up and now the Tags field is appearing... how strange.

[zvi]

Have you tried uploading a pre-existing Dreamwidth entry into Semagic? This is a known Semagic bug, that tags management doesn't work until after you pull in an entry from the LJ clone/fork site.

[ardhra]

That must be what got it working. I did this last night (although without intending to fix the tag problem) and now I see a Tags field. Thanks!

[zoniduck]

Oops! Meant to make this reply to you, not the OP. Hope it helps!

[zoniduck]

I fixed the Semagic tags issue based on a comment in the LJ post for their last release, and it was pretty simple, assuming one has imported their LJ posts into Dreamwidth.

1. Within Semagic, switch to your Dreamwidth journal if you aren't already there.
2. Open Journal> View History
3. Select an older post which you know contains tags, and click the Edit button
4. If you haven't already set Semagic to Edit in Main Window, you'll get an editing popup window. If this happens, click on the little arrow button and select Edit in Main Window.
5. There should now be a box containing the tags from that post right below the "Picture to Use" box.
6. If the tags box is there, log out of Semagic.
7. When you log back in to Semagic, select your Dreamwidth identity from the login list, and then click Login.

You should now see the Tags box as normal. You should probably click the Update link just to be sure all your existing tags are available. If this didn't work, repeat the steps and choose a different older post. On one of my machines it worked the first time I did it, but the other one took two tries.

[ardhra]

Yep, did that last night to edit some posts and now I see it. Thanks!