Advanced tab
The Advanced tab contains a number of "not-so-oftenly" used fields that are saved with each draft. These fields too mirror what is available on the Blog server, yet aren't often changed which is why they are on a secondary tab.
Advanced fields
- Post Status:
- Can be set to Publish or Draft; defaults to the setting that is set on the Draft Defaults Options. Please be aware that as of the time of this writing that MT will post any draft posted to MT from a non-MT page as "Published". For more information on a workaround for this, please check the online FAQ for the most up to date information.
- Comments:
- Can be set to None, Open, or Closed; defaults to the setting that is set on the Draft Defaults Options.
- Text Formatting:
- This is a Blog-server generated list and will be different for each user. As a rule, it is refreshed whenever a Blog-server setting is changed via the Server Options, so as to keep up to date. The items in this list will include any MT-server based plug-ins that you've installed on your server; as a default, all MT servers have "Convert Line Breaks" as a default Text Filter. The options available, after an initial Blog has been configured, will often be None and Convert Line Breaks; defaults to the setting that is set on the Draft Defaults Options.
- Keywords:
- Corresponds to the little-seen Keywords field within the Blog server.
- Allow Pings:
- Allowing pings will mean that Trackbacks can be sent for a given Blog post; defaults to the setting that is set on the Draft Defaults Options.
- URLs to Ping:
- Enter any Trackback URLs that you want to be pinged when this draft is built; put one URL per line, using the Enter key to separate more than one URL.
- Authored on:
- When set to "Use Server Time" no particular Date/Time value sent when posting to the Blog server which allows/forces the Blog server to define the post's Authored On value. If you click this button, you can change this draft's Date/Timestamp to be any valid date/time value. If the Draft Defaults Options dialog is set to "Use Server Time" then this button defaults to that; if not it is initially set to when the draft was created (and can then be changed).
- Local filename:
- If this draft has been saved at least once, the absolute path and file name will be listed here.
- Posted/Not Posted
- This label corresponds to the tab icon, showing whether or not SharpMT has posted this draft to the server. If you click on this label, you can toggle between posted/not posted states; this setting is saved with each draft and is used stictly for bookkeeping within SharpMT.