Sorry the way I understood you couldnt work confortable at oooforum
because of its unresponsiveness. So I suggest using the official
forums to test the iMacros until they are up there to perform all the
tasks.

But I most have missed something.
Regards.

On 9/3/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org> wrote:
> 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.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Andrew Pitonyak
>>>> My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
>>>> Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
>>>>
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