Posted by AndyN1972 on October 30, 2008 at 10:37am
We are putting together a sports news site and are investigating ways of creating content/nodes offline (at an event etc) with the following workflow:
- Site editors create the content item (display fields, taxonomy, body text, photos etc) locally
- Hook up to internet and simply publish complete item into drupal site with one click.
Has anyone got any good pointers on this? One avenue we are looking at is using Adobe Air.
Thanks.
Comments
Blog API
Have you already looked into utilizing the blog api? (http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/blogapi) -- I know a number of blog editors utilize it, but I've never really been impressed with their performance. This is likely more a symptom of the editors being primarily designed for more popular blog CMSs like WordPress.
MarsEdit is one such editor http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/
Back when I was looking into this more, I also explored the "Node import" module. http://drupal.org/project/node_import
Endless possibilites...
Ken,
Thanks for your pointers - after looking into the blogging clients I see that there are mobile phone options too which really opens some options for staff and user contribs. This will be a simple no-coding answer.
The Node Import looks interesting too and may work for a more detailed solution.
We'll get some testing done on these and if anything really flies will post it into the group.
Andy
Email content
Andy
Would this work for you?
Add content to your site via email
http://drupal.org/node/200647
Haven't tried it but I'm itchin' to.
Richard
email posting
Thanks Richard for this info too. This technique could work very nicely for one aspect of potential submissions from our readership. Will let you know how we get on with it all.