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Hi,

Not sure If I’ve completely understood the whole Moblog thing…  I have a news channel set up on our intranet, which will happily take news stories added via publish in the control panel.  We also have a mailing list for “broadcast” emails which I’d like to add to the news channel using Moblog.

I’ve setup Moblog to use the relevant news channel, None for category, default status “open”, author “none”, sticky “no”, allow overrides “yes”, upload directory “uploads”.  The default field only has “none” as an option (the relevant statuses are however there).

I want to map the body of the email to the custom field “news_full_story” and hence as I couldn’t set it above I use

{field name="news_full_story" format="xhtml"}
   {text}
{/field}

In my moblog template.

When I “check moblog”, I get “Moblog was successfully checked, Emails retrieved: 5, Entries Added:0 Attachments Uploaded: 2”.  So it can successfully check for emails, upload attachments, but not create an entry.

I’m using EE 2.1.3.

Cheers Jon

Welcome to the forums, Jon!

When I “check moblog”, I get “Moblog was successfully checked, Emails retrieved: 5, Entries Added:0 Attachments Uploaded: 2”.  So it can successfully check for emails, upload attachments, but not create an entry.

Are the attachments uploading fine? What’s in the actual mail you send to your site?

Hi,

Are the attachments uploading fine? What’s in the actual mail you send to your site?

Yup, the uploads are uploading correctly.

I tried sending a regular email with no special formatting and one with {text}Blah Blah{/text} to no success.

Regards Jon

Hi, Jon. Here’s an example of my moblog that posts OK. See how I have certain fields filled out? How does yours differ from mine?

Hi Sue,

Hi, Jon. Here’s an example of my moblog that posts OK. See how I have certain fields filled out? How does yours differ from mine?

Thanks for the inspiration, I finally figured it out…  The channel I used didin’t have any “text area” fields only text entry & Wygwam fields, and it appears the moblog module won’t post to a wygwam field.  Once I created a text area filed it showed up in the default field drop down!

Is it worth me dropping the Wygwam guys a line to change their field so it can be used by Moblog, or will Moblog only post to text area fields?

Cheers Jon

Yes, the moblog need one of the built-in field types, as it were. Glad to see you were able to figure it out. Please post again as needed.