"Awaiting Approval"?

[Serack]

yes and for the non tecknosavy who understood the last and first centance of that and nothing ells
you do what?

• Open the topic that is "awaiting approval"
• Click the "Modify" button
• Select everything you posted earlier which is now in the modify box
• Hit [Ctrl] + [C] (this copys everything, it's the same thing as going into the edit menu, and selecting copy or right clicking on the highlight and selecting copy)
• Start a new topic
• Name the new topic what you named the origional topic
• Type something into the body of this topic.  It doesn't matter what, you will be replacing this later.
• Post the new topic.
• Open the new topic.
• Click the "Modify" button
• Select everything you typed earlier as filler.
• Hit [Ctrl] + [V] (same comments as copy, but this pastes)
• Click "Save"
• Open the topic that is "Pending Approval"
• Click "Remove"

Edit:  Speling isn't my strong point.

[Dina]

Thanks Serack, I feel stupid for not having thinking on that before. Eh, if I open a new topic whatever with just the filler and then I edited it with the text with the link, is the same, right?

[Serack]

Eh, if I open a new topic whatever with just the filler and then I edited it with the text with the link, is the same, right?

Yah.  Frequently when I get hit by this, I've spent 10 min writing up something that happens to contain a link.  Which makes the copy/paste steps kind of necessary to avoid spending another 10 min rewriting the post.

[Dina]

I understood, but my case (the one CWG mentions) is different. Is a thread that opens every week and has an introductory post. So I only need to copy it from the previous thread. Another option is dong the thread except for the link part, and add it later. Thanks again!

[cenwolfgirl]

okay got the union thread to work
but it took me two trys so there are now tow threads
it is not the likn it is i think the copy and pasting its self

[Dina]

If there are two, delete one, CWG.

[cenwolfgirl]

um that was the first thing i tryed to do dina

[Dina]

And what happened?

[cenwolfgirl]

nothing the thread is still there watiting for aproval

[Dina]

No, not now  . I am sure you can delete it already.

[cenwolfgirl]

i will look again i have been trying to keep up with everything and keep two dogs happy RL and eat my birthday cake at the same time

[Priscellie]

Link me to the extraneous thread.  I can delete it.

[cenwolfgirl]

its okay once it was aproved i delited it and figered out how to stop it from happerning again but thank you

[Serack]

Steps 14 and 15 in my explanation in reply number 15 are an attempt to describe how to delete the extra post.  The "Remove" button is in the same area as "Reply" and "Quote" 

Really, you don't  have to do the copy/paste parts if you initially start the topic knowing that you will have a link in it that will need approval.  I wrote the "guide" with the assumption that you have already generated the post without considering the "Awaiting approval" whammy, and now have to go back and rebuild a new one without the wammy.  If you are posting expecting to be hit by the "wammy" and want to avoid it, you could always start with step 5, go through to step 11, then just type what you want your post to say, with it's links.

I would include this "guide" in my older forum code advice thread, but the "awaiting approval" function serves a purpose, and I only wish to support subversion of that function so far...

[Serack]

Interesting,

I just posted a new topic in the internets section with links in it, and forgot to post filler text without links first to avoid this problem, and it went straight up without awaiting approval.

Maybe administration quietly played with this function somehow.

Edit:  Just had another topic of the type that used to get hit by this wammy go through (7/5/12)