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Hello i tried setting up moblog and it receives the emails, but nothing else happens. The Entry does not show up anywhere. When i check moblog this is what i get.

Moblog was successfully checked
Emails Retrieved:  1
Entries Added:  0
Attachments Uploaded:  0
Pings Sent:  0

I have looked through many threads that supposedly are solved and i get no answers from these.

Please help

Thank You

Nick

Hi nahodhanick,

I had the same issue a while back and it had to do with Channel custom fields being set to required.
If I remember correctly, I had to set Is this a required field? to No for all custom fields in all Channels, not just the Mob Log Channel.

I don’t know if this has been resolved in 2.1.3, since I haven’t tried changing my custom fields.

Take a look at this thread: https://support.ellislab.com/bugs/detail/13521/

Cheers,
Andrea

Thanks for the assist, Andrea.

nahodhanick - Can you tell us which version/build of EE2.x you’re using? See EEWiki:// HowTo Determine My EE Version

yes i can.. 20101020.

Andrea, are you saying i can’t have any channel fields set to required?

Okay, well turning all the fields to not being required worked, and now i am receiving the moblog and it is being posted to my channel entries.

Another question for anyone, i tried to set up certain parts of the email to fill in specific custom fields, but it is not doing that, everything is going into my text area field, along with all the tags from my email. I imagine it is something wrong with my email template, or the way my emails are being sent.

here are the examples, let me know if i have done anything wrong, I tried to follow the documentation as close as possible, but i’m sure i’m missing something:

Moblog Template:

{field name="current_position" format="none"}
{text}
{/field}

{field name="weather" format="none"}
{text}
{/field}

{field name="photo_caption" format="none"}
{text}
{/field}

{field name="blog_entry" format="<br />"}
{text}
{/field}

{field name="date_month" format="none"}
{text}
{/field}

{field name="date_day" format="none"}
{text}
{/field}

{images}
{file}
{/images}

Emails that i send:

{field:current_position}Key West, Florida{/field:current_position}

{field:weather}Sunny Skies, West Winds 15-20 knots. Waves 2-4 feet{/field:weather}

{field:photo_caption}Great view from Key West{/field:photo_caption}

{field:blog_entry}This is the Main body text of the email, i usually have 2-5 paragraphs. {/field:blog_entry}

{field:date_month}Jan{/field:date_month}

{field:date_day}25{/field:date_day}

So that is how i do it, but everything from the email is just entered into the field:blog_entry.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Nick

Nick,
They all have to be textarea fields. Is that the case here?

Oh okay now i see, so the only way to do MoBlog is with textarea? you cannot do text inputs? That is my problem. I’ll just change everything to textarea. Unless there is a way to do moblog with text inputs?

You can, but you’ll need to add a configuration option. See: EEDocs:// Moblog Allow Non-Text Areas