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A Tale of two letters | 24 comments (24 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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When I attempted to submit this Diary I got an error message "Please fill in a value for the following fields: topic" however no topic field is visible.  I eventually resolved the problem by putting the word "Ireland" into the polls box even though I had not intended adding a poll.  Are we currently testing a beta version of ET with some tagging functionality being added?  If so we need to add an explicit "Topic" box.

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 07:32:11 AM EST
Re: A Tale of two letters (none / 1)
I just did a test diary to see if I could replicate the problem and it posted just fine.  There's no beta version and to my knowledge no changes made recently that would have led to that; I think one of the other FPers was experimenting with the CSS script affecting comments earlier, but it shouldn't have affected the posting of diaries.  And as I said, I posted a test diary without a problem.

What browser are you using?  Anyone else having similar issues posting diaries?

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 10:50:40 AM EST
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Re: A Tale of two letters (none / 0)
Firefox vers. 2.0.0.15

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 11:32:08 AM EST
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Sometimes that happens, I don't know why, but I tend to encounter that problem when posting on the FP, not with diaries.

I deleted the poll.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 10:51:08 AM EST
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Thanks

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 11:33:20 AM EST
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Re: A Tale of two letters (4.00 / 3)
By "topic" Scoop means the options in the pull-down menu in the middle of the top line of the page. It displays "Diary" by default, but has a list of topics like International, Energy, Europe (indicated in this case). These can be used as tags when running a search with the Scoop search function.

Normally, however, Scoop accepts the generic "Diary", and your diary was posted under that "topic". (A lot of diaries are posted under the default "Diary", so searching with topic tags is pot luck...) Why Scoop got temperamental on you is hard to say. Mysterious ways etc...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 11:29:11 AM EST
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I think Frank accidentally clicked on the pull-down menu and set it to "Everything" - because that's then you are prompted for valid topic.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 11:47:06 AM EST
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The only way I've found to reproduce that error message is when "Everything" is selected in that topic box:

Why there's an "Everything" that doesn't count as a topic is truly beyond me ;)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 11:54:12 AM EST
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Re: A Tale of two letters (none / 0)
Good detective work and possibly the reason.  At some point I wondered what that selection box was for and may have clicked on it - although I don't recall seeing those options and certainly don't recall selecting one.  This looks like redundant functionality at the moment, although presumable would come in handy if we ever had separate diary streams for different languages or topics.  

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 12:08:38 PM EST
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PS - if that is the case it surprises me that putting "Ireland" into the poll box appeared to solve the problem.

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 12:10:30 PM EST
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Re: A Tale of two letters (none / 1)
Probably it sprangf back to "Diary" upon re-load, and putting "Ireland" into the poll box did nothing.

At any rathe, "Everything" seems to be a SCOOP sectioning feature unused on ET, so I simply deleted it from the topics.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 12:29:53 PM EST
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should prevent the problem re-occurring so.  Thanks.

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 12:52:23 PM EST
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Re: A Tale of two letters (none / 0)
Ireland has a magic of its own?
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 05:02:00 PM EST
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I'm gone with the faeries....

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 06:14:31 PM EST
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