Does not support blogger.com

Posted Fri, 10/09/2010 - 21:52 by Anonymous

I just bought the app, as it claims to support blogger.com blogs. However, when I provide my authorization credentials, the app does not find my blog. This is very frustrating, as this is the second blog app I have tried which claims to support Blogger.com but in fact does not. (BlogWriter being the first.)

Perhaps a future update will address the issue, but I'm not holding my breath.

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Google Account Issue?

by bloggerplus - 11/09/2010 - 05:36

Hello BloggerPlus customer!

First of all, we are so sorry to hear your problem.

Before releasing BloggerPlus v1.5, we tested Blogger.com using 3 different accounts and found no problem.

 

Now, we started to find other reasons that can cause problem. 

We are wondering if you can test BloggerPlus with new "Google Account"?

In recent, Blogger.com's account has been changed to "Google Account". BloggerPlus implemented G-Data API. It means G-Data API may not work for old Blogger.com account system. 

 

Thank you for sharing your case and we will discover the issue more.

 

BloggerPlus team.

Blogger.com Fails With New Account, Too

by Kravlor (not verified) - 11/09/2010 - 08:02

Per your suggestion, I created a brand new Google Account, along with a brand new Blogger.com test blog.

In this case, the test blog appears as a valid selection after I enter my user credentials in Blogger+. However, the app is unable to do anything else with it; tapping on the blog name brings up an error window which says 'Error: Invalidate Server Configuration.'

So, no, the problem is not related to my particular Google Account. What *may* be a problem related to my original post is that I have a custom domain (blog.kravlor.com). However, it may still be accessed by visiting the original http://kravlor.blogspot.com -- Google issues a redirect to the proper URL.

OS/Device info: iOS 4.1 (8B117) / iPhone 4.

Did you select Album in blogger.com configuration?

by bloggerplus - 11/09/2010 - 10:31

Thanks for your reply. You gave us valuable information really. Thanks.

 

The message ("Error: Invalidate Server Configuration") occurs when we didn't select 'blog' name or 'album' in blogger.com configuration.

Did you select album for image uploading? It is mandatory for the Blogger.com configuration.

If you didn't see any album in the list, it means no album is ready on the picasa web album.

Please go to picasa web album(http://picasaweb.google.com) and create at least one album for your blog. 

(actually, if you create one blog entry which has image, blogger.com will create one album for you) 

Then go to your blogger.com account in the BloggerPlus then select the album in the list.

It will solve your new Google Account problem. 

 

About your original post, 

We did't consider custom domain issue yet. So we will see and check possible reasons as soon as possible. 

When we resolve this issue we will let you know.

Thanks for your help. 

 

BloggerPlus team.

No Picasa Album Fixed Standard Blogger.com

by Kravlor (not verified) - 11/09/2010 - 21:42

Thank you for the suggestion regarding creation of a Picasa album.

Following creation of an album in Picasaweb for the test blog, I was able to assign an album to the blog in Blogger+, and subsequently post through the application.

I had not created an album for the test blog, as I do not use images in my writing. It's not too big of an issue to create one, though.

I'm sure many other users will have the same difficulty. I suggest updating the manual to specify that creation of a Picasa album is necessary for the app to work with Blogger.com, as that was the first place I looked!

Thank you for the update regarding custom domains. I appreciate you looking into it. I would be happy to test any beta version pertaining to this feature against my blog if you are interested. Please contact me via email if you are interested/willing to do so.

Thank you for your suggestion!

by bloggerplus - 12/09/2010 - 21:36

Hello Kravlor!

We are happy to hear your test blog works. Thank you for your suggestion too, we will update our manual as you said.

We appreciate your taking the time to write us, thank you for your cooperation!

 

Now, we started to resolve the issue you mentioned earlier. We are not sure the custom domain was the reason or not.

We will create a blog with custom domain and test it with BloggerPlus in debug mode.

If we find any good reason, we will contact you soon.

 

Thank you!

BloggerPlus team.

This issue will be resolved soon.

by bloggerplus - 15/09/2010 - 01:23

We found this issue occurs to Google Application users. According to our test, Google Application User couldn't get their blog list correctly. We are so sorry to the BloggerPlus users under this situation.

 

This is a kind of Google Blogger.com's server implementation problem. We tested and prove it using "BloggerSample.app" which is provided by Google Blogger.com SDK . BloggerSample.app is distributed for the developers for testing or for showing code example. BloggerSample.app also fails to retrieve blog list.

Then we found workaround. By changing 'accountType' from "HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE" to "GOOGLE", it works. But, we have to change code so you can't apply it now in BloggerPlus.

 

We will update BloggerPlus as soon as our final testing finish. (expecting in this week) 

 

We really want to say special thanks to Kravlor (Mike Bongard, http://blog.kravlor.com/ ).

If not him, we might not be able to approach this issues correctly. He helped us a lot to discover the reasons, to test our workaround. 

 

We will update final testing result again here.

Thank you.

 

BloggerPlus Team.

Fixed

by bloggerplus - 15/09/2010 - 23:26

Other google API doc mentioned about 'accountType' should be used with "GOOGLE" in the case of Google Application User's Authentication.

 -> http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/docs/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#ClientLogin

 

Now, we are fixing BloggerPlus v1.5 and will release v1.5.1 by this weekend.

Thanks you so much.

BloggerPlus team.