Any way to create a draft?

[Sir Aaron]

I've been creating a review and wanted to create a draft thread to save my work before making the thread public. Is there any way to do that? It appears to me to be "no."

[AZeno]

I have not encounterd a way to save draft posts on Mouseowners so I create any lengthy posts on MS Word (or Plain Text on my iPhone) and then copy and paste the contents from MS Word into the MO's thread.

This works especially well with trip reports, including inserting photos. I load my photos on photo bucket, then copy and paste the IMG code into the draft MS Word document. There is a ten photo limit for each MO's post so I use MS Word to create a ten photo page break. Then I copy and paste each ten photo page into a post.



Hope that helps.

[carolina_yankee]

AZeno's method is your best bet. You might want to familiarize yourself with the forum codes so you put them in your text editor.

Simply remove the quotation marks. If I hadn't used them, you would see the marked up text rather than the codes. If you're familiar with html, the system works the same, but the brackets (and some codes) are different.

["b"]whatever you want in bold["/b"]
["i"]whatever you want in italics["/i"]
["u"]whatever you want underlines["/u"]

For images:
["img"]insert link to image stored elsewhere on the web["/img"]

The linked image will then be displayed in your report.

Hyperlinks are more complicated, so you might want to drop those in after you've pasted into the MouseOwners text box. But, if you're familiar with the concept, it's identical to html <a href="URL">hyperlink text</a> concept:

(Again, ignore quotations marks immediately inside left bracket, but don't ignore quotes around "insert url here")

["url="insert url here"]"Text to become hyperlink"["/url]

Bullets are even more complex, so that would be another tutorial! (But it's similar to the <ul> code in html).

Dirk

[Sir Aaron]

Thanks, guys. I remember a little bit of HTML programming from the day (like before programs did everything for you and you had to write it manually). I'll just start in Word.

I'm trying to do an informative comparison between touringplans and easywdw (as well as gauge their accuracy during my trip). I'm planning for my trip in September so I'm starting to write it up.