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PDA Posting to MT

Thursday, February 21st, 2002 at 4:57 PM Category: Blogging, Meryl's Notes Blog, Tech 6 comments

Here’s a way to post to the blog from your PDA (with or without a modem) and not worry about “inappropriate surfing” at the office. The only drawback is that the boxes where you enter your entry are SMALLLLL. However, Ben and Mena plan to add more functionality in a future release. Details on how to do it are in the MT Forums.

Go into AvantGo and create a new channel. Enter a name for it and the following for the URL (one line):

http://www.yourdomain.com/mt/mt.cgi?

is_bm=1&bm_show=allow_comments,
excerpt,text_more&__mode=view&_type=entry&
link_title=&link_href=&text=

Note: If you keep your MovableType directory elsewhere than /mt, but sure to modify that in the line, too.

Save it. Sync your handheld. Go into PDA AvantGo on your handheld and select the item you just created by the name you gave it.

The first time you do this, you’ll need to enter your user ID and password that you use to sign in to your Weblog. Sync it AGAIN. You won’t have to enter your user ID and password again.

Then, go back into PDA AvantGo and enter your entry. It will be online when you sync again either through a modem or cradle.

This entry got on through a modem and it has been tested through a cradle sync.

Feedback from Wari:

If you have multiple blogs, you can use the following to take you right into a certain blog’s entry. You can determine the id number by entering Movable Type, clicking on the blog you want to add to your PDA, and looking at the ID=”#.” The # is what goes after ID= in the following:

http://your.domain.com/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&blog_id=1

Again, substitute your domain and be sure to point to wherever mt.cgi is located if you don’t use the typical home/mt/mt.cgi location.