Ecto Update? Problems with Publishing Status
Posted October 31st, 2005 @ 08:07am by Erik J. Barzeski
Ever since moving to MovableType 3.2 on both this blog and The Sand Trap, ecto has failed to work properly when setting the Publish/Draft setting.
Ecto seems to preserve what's set on the server most of the time, and when a new entry is created in ecto, it's marked as published. Even if the mode is set to "Draft," it's published. What's funny is that the entry may not be immediately published, but it is marked as published in MT's Web interface and the next time someone posts a comment, a TrackBack, a new post to the home page, or anything that requires the post to be re-built, it will be built and published.
There are a few permutations, but basically, things are behaving normally and ecto hasn't been updated beyond version 2.3.9 since September 6.
P.S. I've long since given up on scheduling entries via ecto. IIRC, SixApart didn't open the third-party API to allow users to set a "Scheduled" status.
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Posted 31 Oct 2005 at 8:16am #
Try and add this to your mt-config.cgi:
NoPublishMeansDraft 1
It used to be an optional setting in previous versions of Movable Type, with the following comment:
I had to enable it in MT 3 to be able to post entries as drafts in ecto and I had to add it back after upgrading to MT 3.2.
Posted 31 Oct 2005 at 8:36am #
I'll give that a try. I've never needed it previously, and I did start with MovableType 2.1.something. Hmm…, thanks. We'll see how it goes.
Posted 31 Oct 2005 at 10:22am #
The current development version of ecto is dated Oct 10, according to their site. I still like ecto better than some of the other blog editors out there. Thanks for the NoPublishMeansDraft pointer, Olivier!