The Mystery of the Disappearing Articles

[Programmer]

A couple of people have asked about the possibility of doing a sample letter to send to publishers, and this has now been done. Sue (who has been a professional copy writer) and me have passed it back and forth a couple of times and this is the result - I have added it to the menu on the left as an article.

But wait, I hear you ask, what happened to the articles? If you click on the Articles folder now you will see it doesn't contain anything.

This is because I have made some changes to the OTZ and the program itself. You need the new version of the program to see the articles. What's new is that any user can now add an article whenever they want (and go back and edit it). The Forum is great to pass on messages, but old messages are not likely to be read unless someone finds them while doing a search. The Articles section is a way of sharing material that you want to be more enduring.

This new feature is currently only part of the beta: you can download it by clicking on the beta link on the downloads page.

On the subject of the beta, I still haven't heard from anyone who had the problem with the almost-transparent-pop-ups. I would like to know if my hunch is right and this is now fixed. I remember that there were quite a few people who reported this bug, so if any of you read this please try the beta and let me know if it solves this problem.

Thanks!

[jennydog]

The transparent pop ups seem to work ok, I haven't had any problems so far. However, I don't see anything in the Articles folder, unless of course, there is nothing in the Articles folder. I've got the 7.4 version.

[Programmer]

It probably sounds silly, but could you double check you have the 7.4 version? You can do this by looking in the About window.

If you have, you could try pressing the Reload button on the navigation tree and see if that makes the articles appear.

Please let me know how you get on - thanks!

[jennydog]

Yup, 7.4.0.0 version - tried the reload, still nothing in articles

[Programmer]

Thanks - has anyone else tried looking in the Articles folder in 7.4?

[Dormouse]

Hi, Richard!

I just tested to see if they're all there on my 7.4. All good.

Sue Jones

[jennydog]

Checked again now - still nothing in Articles.

[purple_scorp]

Hi Richard,

I downloaded 7.4 Beta, uninstalled the previous Orphalese version, and installed the 7.4 Beta, and I can view all Articles - no problems.

BTW - I think that letter that you and Sue created is excellent.

Regards
purple_scorp

[jennydog]

I did exactly the same thing - download 7.4, uninstall old version, install 7.4 - no articles. So why isn't mine working?

[jennydog]

I downloaded it again, uninstalled the 7.4 and re-installed 7.4, and now the articles show up. I did notice that this download had instructions and the first 7.4 I downloaded did not. Anyway, articles show up now. Thanks