Just wondering whether there could be a situation where XMLGrab would make an entry’s status ‘Draft’ rather than ‘Open’? It’s started happening to a few of my entries and I can’t work out why.

Does EE do this generally under certain circumstances? There’s no expiration date been set on the entries and I can’t see how they look any different to the Open ones, other than the status.

XMLGrab should just use the weblog’s default status (from CP Home ›  Admin ›  Weblog Administration ›  Weblog Management ›  Edit Weblog Preferences ›  Administrative Preferences)

The value should be the same for all entries.

Andrew

Default status… I reckon you may well have found my problem. Thanks Andrew!

The default status for those entries is “Draft”. That’s because they need to be because I have other admin users contributing to the same weblog. Any way of hardcoding them to ‘Open’ via XMLGrab?

Not built-in but it is easy to hack.

Look for a line in the pi.xmlgrab.php file like:

and change it to:

Andrew

You’re a legend! Thanks