How can I get Drupal to work nicely with MarsEdit (and Ecto)?

May 24, 2007 1:27 PM

How can I get Drupal to work nicely with MarsEdit (and Ecto)?

Our server admin set up Drupal 5.1 recently. I have enabled blogapi and enabled our News story type in the Blog API admin screen.

Here's my problem. As a regular user with permission to publish and edit my own news stories, I cannot successfully retrieve posts or publish posts in MarsEdit. I receive an error saying that I do not have permission to edit said blog.

However, if I create a MarsEdit Weblog and use the uber admin account I have no problem.

so i tried setting up a user role with the below permissions enabled, just to see if it would allow me to successfully use MarsEdit (the idea being take away that which was not required later).

block module
administer blocks
use PHP for block visibility
comment module
access comments
administer comments
post comments
post comments without approval
filter module
administer filters
menu module
administer menu
node module
access content
administer content types
administer nodes
create page content
create story content
edit own page content
edit own story content
edit page content
edit story content
revert revisions
view revisions
search module
administer search
search content
use advanced search
system module
access administration pages
administer site configuration
select different theme
taxonomy module
administer taxonomy
upload module
upload files
view uploaded files
user module
access user profiles
administer access control
administer users
change own username

Unsuccessful. The same error was returned. Is there an additional setting somewhere that I need to toggle in order to get blogging API's to work successfully? Obviously giving out the primary admin account info is not an option, and I'd like this to be available to staff who can post and edit their own news items to the site.

posted by missed to computers & internet (2 comments total)

I've had this exact problem and I know what you can do to fix it:

You need to enable user blogs / create-edit own blog, but IIRC you can turn it off that story type in the Remote API.
posted by unixrat at 7:56 PM on May 24, 2007

brilliant! thanks so much :D
posted by missed at 6:45 AM on May 25, 2007