This article will describe how to use Google Docs to publish an article directly to your infraNET hosted Blog including images!



Which brings up this popup where you need to configure your settings as shown.

Once you do this, just click "Post to Blog" and your post will be sent to the blog. Once it is posted, if you want to update, you will need to click on Share... Publish to Web once again and you may need to "Remove from Blog" and then "Post to Blog" again. The "update" function doesn't appear to be working at this time article.
Note 1: Apparently, this functionality is only available using the "old" version of Google Docs. In other words, you must go to your Google Document settings, to the "Editing" tab and uncheck "Create new text documents using the latest version of the document editor." in order to use this feature.
Note 2: Publishing via Google Docs SUPPORTS images as Google will host the images as part of the Published Google Doc!
Once you do this, follow these steps to configure and post to your infraNET hosted blog:
- Login to your Google Docs account and begin a new document.
- Format it with the text to post to your blog.
- Click the triangle attached to the Share button in the upper right hand corner of your Google docs screen and select "Publish as Web Page"
You will then be presented with this screen. Click "change your blog site settings".
Which brings up this popup where you need to configure your settings as shown.
For the URL, enter your base website domain URL and then add /MetaWebLogAPI.ashx... for example: http://www.infranet.com/MetaWebLogAPI.ashx
Once you do this, just click "Post to Blog" and your post will be sent to the blog. Once it is posted, if you want to update, you will need to click on Share... Publish to Web once again and you may need to "Remove from Blog" and then "Post to Blog" again. The "update" function doesn't appear to be working at this time article.

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