The next version of the forum software used by oooforum supports deleting all posts by the user. Also, there is an add-on for the version 2 (I think) that also supports this.

The official forum runs great, no need to test there. It is sufficiently moderated that there are no particular issues.

On 09/03/2014 05:28 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
For the record, you could do this also on our forums at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/

This will give you a fast server to work on until oooforum is back in
shape. Trying to delete your own post could do the trick enough to
test it.

On 9/3/14, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote:
I agree, sorry to see the sad state of the forum. Maybe all this
should be let known to the owner so he can take measurses. I dont
think anyone want to see oooforum go.

On 9/3/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org> wrote:
Yeah, even when I build an iMacro to remove a single post based on a
hard coded URL, oooforum is so slow, that it fails to respond in 60
seconds after saying "yes, remove that like I asked" and then the macro
itself stops running. I set the timeout to 10 minutes, will see if that
is sufficient. That said, when the forum is so slow, hardly seems worth
the effort.

On 09/03/2014 08:41 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Side note: It occurred to me that some of my "failures" may be
attributed to the site simply not responding since it stopped
responding last night.



On 09/03/2014 01:17 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Well, I find the entire thing rather confusing. For example, I can
extract the table of text as follows:

TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
ATTR=*

'Extract the table text.
TAG POS=7 TYPE=TABLE ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

If I want to extract all of the URLs in the table, well, I can't
figure out how to do that. I am able to enumerate the first two links
as follows:

TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
ATTR=*

TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*&&CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
TAG POS=2 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*&&CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

I had trouble simply extracting all of them, so, I tried to use java
script to call iMacro, but that never returned from the first iimPlay

var spammer="RobinColvin"

window.alert("Read for '" + spammer + "'");

var search_macro;
search_macro ="CODE:";
search_macro +="URL
GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml"+"\n";;
search_macro +="TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT
FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=NAME:search_author
CONTENT="+spammer+"\n";
search_macro +="TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT
FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*"+"\n";



var links = [];
var iLink = 1;
var iMaxLink = 100
var link = "";
var extract_link_macro;

window.alert(search_macro);

// Perform the search!
iimPlay(search_macro)

window.alert("Finished with search!");

do {
   extract_link_macro ="CODE:";
   extract_link_macro +="TAG POS="+iLink+"1 TYPE=A
ATTR=HREF:*&&CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF"+"\n";
   iimPlay(extract_link_macro);
   link=iimGetLastExtract();
   if(link!="#EANF#") {
     links.push(link);
     iLink = iLink + 1;
   }
} while (link != "#EANF#" && iLink <= iMaxLink)

window.alert("found " + iLink + " links");


If I assume that I have already searched, then I can extract all of
the links by using "loop execute" and then using a macro similar to:

TAG POS={{!LOOP}} TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*&&CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

If I loop 50 times, it exports everything from that one page into
three files. It seems that it does not easily support doing the
entire thing in one shot; at least while using a loop!

At least by listing the extract command 50 times I end up with only
one file.

this is not a simple thing and it still does not get me to my end game.

On 09/02/2014 10:23 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On 9/2/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org> wrote:
There is very little difference between what an admin and a user
sees in
this context.

To find the posts, I use the regular search. The returned list is the
same for an admin as well as a regular user. While displaying a
thread,
there is an admin link that allows me to remove the thread and
there is
a link to remove each post in the thread. There is also a link on the
bottom of each thread to navigate to a special admin page that
provides
some extra functions such as delete a user (but deleting the user
does
not remove their posts).
I did an excercise and try deleting my own posts from oooforum. I see
what you mean (and what I was missing). There is no checkbox to mark
all the posts like it would be on -- let say  -- the PM page where a
checkbox is able to mass delete all links.

I understand now your point on looping through non secuential links. I
went on the iMacros forum and found some tips responding to a
positioning loop.
http://forum.imacros.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&p=37399

Hope this helps.


On 09/01/2014 11:00 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Unfortunately I dont admin any forum to see what you are seen, so I
only have access to the forum search engine but I know that the
Admin
(the one able to delete the forum) is a different view.

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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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