You can set up your blog so that you can use a third-party
editing tool to create blog entries.
Before you begin
To use this application, you must already have a blog with
at least one entry. You must also have access to a third-party blog-editing
tool, such as w.bloggar or ScribeFire. The steps describe how to set
up your blog to use ScribeFire, a plug-in for Mozilla Firefox. The
steps for enabling other editors as third-party editors are detailed
in an article titled Using third-party editors to author blog entries on
the IBM® Connections wiki.
About this task
Follow these steps to specify an alternate editor for creating
blog entries. These steps assume that you already installed the ScribeFire
plug-in and that you are using Mozilla Firefox as your browser.
Procedure
- Click My Blogs to work with your
blog.
- Click Settings to edit the settings
for your blog.
- Enable the Enable Blogger and Metaweblog API
for your blog setting on the General page.
- Click Update Blog Settings.
- Click the Scribefire icon in the
Firefox status bar or choose Scribefire from
the Tools menu to start ScribeFire.
- Start the account wizard.
- Enter the URL for your blog.
- Select Metaweblog API in the system
type field and enter the URL for your Blogs server in the Server
API URL field.
The URL looks like: http://<hostname>/blogs/services/xmlrpc.
- Enter your IBM Connections
user name and password.
Note: Both user name and
password are case-sensitive.
If the login is successful, you
see a list of your blogs.
- Select the blog or blogs you want to update with ScribeFire.
- Use ScribeFire to create a blog entry and post it to your
blog.