x-posting in DW and LJ

[kazbaby]

I finally found the instructions on how to properly set up Semagic for cross posting to multiple journal accounts. I knew I was missing something the other day when I posted on how to set up Semagic to post to DW. Semagic works for Windows; as well as with Mac and Linux (you have to install them using WINE), download information is here.

1. In the login box put a "username" and password. (Your "username" can be anything you want to identify the account, ie: fic ij, fic lj, real life.)
   
2. DO NOT LOG IN!
   
3. Tick the "remember password" box and the "auto-login" box.
   
4. Now click on File > Server Settings.
   
5. Put your REAL username in the box here.
   
6. Make sure the server is www.dreamwidth.org for DW, www.livejournal.com for LJ, www.insanejournal.com for IJ (if you're also on Insane Journal).
   
7. Click OK, and then log in.
   
8. Log out and do it again for the next journal.

When you go to post, click "Journal" > "Post to Multiple Journals". A little box will appear with a list of your journal accounts you've just set up, simply select the ones you want to post to and click "OK". I just did a test a few minutes ago and it works this time!

Courtesy of morgandawn:

also, if for some reason your tags are not carrying over to DW....

I found a Semagic workaround. very simple
http://semagic.livejournal.com/14582.html

"...tags are enabled for Insanejournal.com and any other site after opening an entry with tags in the history window."

Comments

[cesy]

It might be worth cutting the instructions as well, just to make this slightly shorter on reading pages, as it's been posted in other places already. But that's just my preference, so feel free to ignore and/or delete this comment.

[kazbaby]

It's behind a cut now.

[zorb]

Excellent, thank you!

[justbreathe80]

I am very carefully following these instructions but I still can't get both accounts to show up in the box when I click on posting to multiple accounts. Both my DW and LJ accounts have the same usernames - could this be the issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[lamardeuse]

I had the same problem at first - it's that you actually have to give each account a different name in the initial window, and then change it in the File-Server Settings window to "justbreathe80". I called my separate ones "lj", "ij" and "dw" on the intro screen, then changed them to "lamardeuse" when I went into Server Settings (you may have to uninstall and reinstall the program - I did and it worked fine).

[justbreathe80]

Awesome! I was wondering if that was the issue - I will definitely give that a try. Thanks a million times over!

[lamardeuse]

Thank you for this! It works wonderfully. :)

[falena]

This is great and terribly clear. Thank you!

[amalthia]

I had a question, on Semagic normally you can use it to post to communities but I'm on a community on DW and it's not showing up in my Semagic when I select dw from the drop down. I was wondering if you had the same problem?

[kazbaby]

Yes, I am having that problem. Same with my reading circle. I would assume that part is simply due to little differences in LJ and DW. Hopefully a work around or a solution will be found soon. For now what I've been doing is opening it up on the LJ server instead of the DW one.

[amalthia]

I found the solution!

I logged out of Semagic, and logged back in using the DW profile. and it added my communities on that login.

Apparently that did the trick.

[1_mad_squirrel]

Bless you!

[adelheid]

Thank you! This was a great help.

[ladyrelaynie]

Whee! Thank you, I needed those instructions.

[glittertine]

Thank you! :)

[marycrawford]

Thank you for this excellent tutorial!

[crimson_vipera]

Wow. THANK YOU for this.

When I decided to look into crossposting, I was stilling myself for reading dozens of pages of mostly inteligible tech-speech and instead found THIS. It's short, concise, and writen in plain old English. And with links too!

This - makes me very happy.

CV

[tinytinypieces]

Thank you SO MUCH FOR THIS TUTORIAL!

[tam_lin]

first, thank you a lot for this tutorial.

second, i have a question and i feel terribly silly asking it. In my File menu i don't see Server Settings. Could you please help me locating it?

thanks!

[kazbaby]

Glad I could help. *g*

When you click 'File', you'll see three selections in the drop-down menu that appears: Connection Settings, Server Settings, and Exit.

[tam_lin]

thanks!
i've finally figured it out!!

[coffeestudies]

Thank you! ♥

[dolimir_k]

Upgraded to a new computer recently and totally forgot how to do this. Thank you for the instructions so I could set up Semagic again!

[alex_antonin]

I tried this. I did everything right. It doesn't work for me. Any ideas why that might be?