on the subject of cross-posting and imports...

[rivendellrose]

Two questions on the subject of cross-posting and imports to and from LJ:

1. When I post something with cross-posting enabled, DW tells me that it will send a request to LJ. Presumably this means I have to somehow allow the post on LJ. How do I do that?

2. Why, for the love of all that's good and holy, do all my comments that were imported from LJ show an icon that, yes, I definitely remember having once upon a blue moon about a million years ago, but which I have long since replaced with other icons, and which is no longer uploaded on either DW or LJ? I can understand (quite easily) that it reverts all my main post icons to my default on DW, because I don't have the same keywords for my icons on both systems, but... why this random icon that doesn't exist anymore? (And apologies to anyone who thinks I've gone utterly mad and am still using an icon of 20-years-ago Sarah Mclachlan... I swear, I'm not... at least not intentionally...)

This post not cross-posted, for obvious reasons.

Comments

[augustphoenix]

1) It is sending a "request", but my cross-posts happen immediately (usually) and without further action on my part (including edits).

[schnurble]

1: The request sent to LJ is an order to post this entry, not a question whether LJ may do so. So you don't have to allow it on LJ. It's like when you post an entry directly on LJ, once you press the "post" button, it doesn't need any further confirmation from you either, and crossposting is like pressing the "post" button from remote.

2. The comments from you seem to be attributed to your open source ID, which is not the same as your DW account. And the open source ID has this icon as default pic.

Hope this helps :o)

[cytherea]

Adding another answer for #1 -- you provided your LJ username and password or equivalent thereof to DW when you set up crossposting. It's using those credentials to make the post request on your behalf, and LJ cannot tell the difference between you posting it and DW posting it on your behalf.

If, for some reason, LJ fucks it up and won't accept the post request, DW will tell you it failed, and then you might have to take action of some sort... otherwise, you don't have to do anything.