By jasonwhat on

This is just a general inquiry. I've noticed that since Google own's Blogger and tons of other cool services now, they are adding some great features -- like linking enabling adding pictures to blogs via Picasa and the newest one: Blogger for Word (http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1180). While the Drupal community might frown upon combining "Word" with anything to do with a website (due to the horrible Word markup that always needs to be cleaned) the business world, and really most people that do any writing, use Word. I know there are many cool tools for blogging from your desktop, but the ability to simply write something in word and have it appear on your website would help Drupal standout even more as a top CMS for all fields.

I haven't played around with Blogger for Word much, but I assume it uses a standard blogger API. Could this be easyily translated to work with Drupal? Has anyone tried this out and have any comments on it?

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drlex commented

First download ActiveX component
http://www.worldwideweb-x.com/TortugaBeta.zip

Next write a macro using this library.
Add button etc. anyone intrested in doin'this?

Here an example of reading blog entries:

Sub ReadBlog()

    Dim mt As New MovableType
    Dim blogID = 1
    mt.Login = "login"
    mt.Password = "password"
    mt.ServiceUrl = "http://www.drupalsite.org/xmlrpc.php"
    
    numReceived = mt.GetRecentPosts(blogID, 10)
    
    NumPosts = mt.NumRecentPosts
    For i = 0 To NumPosts - 1
        MsgBox (mt.GetRecentPostTitle(i))
        ' mt.GetRecentPostId(i)
        ' mt.GetRecentPostUserId(i)
        ' mt.GetRecentPostTitle(i)
        ' mt.GetRecentPostDate(i)
    Next

End Sub

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http://drlex.jogger.pl

jasonwhat’s picture

jasonwhat commented

Is there a way to leverage the work already done in the Blogger for Word compenent since blogger is already an included api in Drupal?

drlex’s picture

drlex commented

It's already been done
Take a look here (it use blogger API) http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/stories/2002/05/0014.html

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jasonwhat commented

I gave it a try and after much playing around got a post up, but it posted all the content as the title. Have you tried this on your site? Any tips to get it working. Nobody seems that interested in this on the drupal, but this is the kind of breakthrough that makes regular, non-developer people think they can actually update their own site or blog. Adding a smooth instance of this to Drupal could be a major selling point. "A CMS so easy you can create your content in Word."

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links commented

If you install Post2Blog, there is an option to install a Word plugin. I haven't really looked into this as it doesn't interest me.

I loaded Word however and there is a toolbar that has been installed with buttons for post, more text tag and currently playing music... what else could you possibly need? ;)

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nicholasbw commented

I work in MS Word all day long, I tried Post2Blog on the 30 day demo to no avail, It was very problematic and ByteScout would did not answer support e-mails. (Perhaps because it was a demo).

Has anyone else located another solution that can handle MS Word Documents, Images + Text??