By timatlee on

Hello...

So this morning I stumbled across this in one of my feeds.. http://bavatuesdays.com/publishing-google-docs-to-your-blog/ .. it seems that I can post directly from Google Documents to a number of different types of blogs - Drupal being one that is supported.

However, I am unable to get it to play nice with Drupal 5.7. It seems to behave well with Wordpress, but try as I might - no dice with Drupal.

Google Docs seems to say its an error on their part, and they will look into it - but it got me wondering more about this feature.

Anyone else investigated this feature working with Drupal at all? I've never looked at using Drupal's XMLRPC services...

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zilla’s picture

zilla commented

if it produces good clean output, this would be an awesome way to let writers work on drafts, collaborate on articles, handle edits and versioning and in turn handle extensive formatting without having to throw a wysiwig editor into drupal...

please let me know if you hear more. i'm going to go and check it out now.

(update) took a look. looks solid, though there are apparently some issues with outputting the title from docs into a blog/post

timatlee’s picture

timatlee commented

After a little more digging, I did come across http://driesknapen.net/blog/google-docs-drupal - however, I still came across the error in Google Docs (have encountered an error which will be investigated...)

I agree about the WYSIWYG editor thing - pending good output. I did stumble across one comment that indicated the output was bad, but with nothing to back it up. The simple test I performed generated clean content. It also seems that this feature has been around for a while, so there's a good possibility things have changed in the meantime.

I'll keep looking and trying things.

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keith.smith commented

I tried this out in Drupal 6, using the settings for MetaWebLog API (after I had enabled and configured the optional core Blog API module) and it seemed to work great. I lost my fomatting, but that was likely due to the default input format (though I didn't check).

--keith

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timatlee commented

Hi

I had BlogAPI enabled in Drupal 5 - this is where all my experimentation had been done, and where I'd run into all the issues.

Installed Drupal 6, and try again - works like a charm!

I wonder if that's something that can be fixed with a module in Drupal 5, or is the whole xmlrpc / blogapi thing too different between 5 and 6...

Thanks for the tip though!

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WorldFallz commented

But how does it look? Once you got it up and running on D6, how was the conversion from google doc to drupal?

keith.smith’s picture

keith.smith commented

Eh. OK. Nothing to get excited about, though. After I set my default input format to Full HTML (which isn't recommended, of course) my test post was *almost* identical to the Google Docs file. The line breaks were off, which I could probably have fixed by turning off the line break filter in the input format. I had a blockquote in the test document that translated into a <p style="margin-left: 40px;"> style tags when it got posted into Drupal, and I'm not crazy about that.

--keith