Article Writing

Re: Some of my github projects are not available for import as article

29-Jul-21 10:41

I know for our blog entries we have a minimum word requirement. I'm not sure if the same is true for GitHub projects. That said, this project readme wouldn't quite meet our submission guidelines. Would you be interested in submitting this instead as a full article?

CodeProject articles have a certain layout to follow, so that users can learn the most from them. Each article attempts to answer the following questions: What problem does this solution solve? How does this help someone else? How does the code actually work? What is going on inside the code snippets?

Here is a submission from a first time author who did a terrific job, just to give you a basic overview of what a beginner article might looks like:
Avoiding InvokeRequired[^]

You can take a look at our article FAQ here:
CodeProject Article FAQ - Part 2: How to Post an Article on CodeProject [^]

For tips on writing articles, please see this article:
A Guide To Writing Articles For Code Project[^]

You can also see our submission guidelines here:
http://www.codeproject.com/info/submit.aspx

Please let me know if you have further questions.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Member 1410320129-Jul-21 14:49

Member 14103201

29-Jul-21 14:49

I thought you can import a github project and after that change the article for it, no?

Re: Some of my github projects are not available for import as article

Sean Ewington30-Jul-21 4:01

way too many edits for me

30-Jul-21 4:01

I suppose the issue is that the project would be removed. But, if you would like, I could create your readme article in a status that you could edit and improve into an article.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Nelek26-Jul-21 21:18

Re: way too many edits for me

26-Jul-21 21:18

@Sean-Ewington we already spoke about the author of this article some weeks ago in the S&A forum.

IIRC you had some words with him about trying to push his article in many message boards of other articles (some totally unrelated) and we spoke about his periodical edits.

He is doing it again. You edited his article 4 time this month and he always edited it again between some hours to a couple of days later.
Many of the edits are "minor changes" are just making a word [strong] or changing a capital letter and others are so "minor" that the compare function in the versions history doesn't even find something to highlight as a difference.

I don't want to report him yet. But I think that he is trying to "fool" the system and keep his article always in the front page and retain visibility, more than doing meaningful or needed edits.

And I don't find this is a good way to promote his publication.

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Greg Utas27-Jul-21 0:55

Greg Utas

27-Jul-21 0:55

See here[^]. Some of my updates look the same when the only significant change is the download's functionality.

Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

Re: way too many edits for me

Nelek27-Jul-21 2:08

Re: way too many edits for me

27-Jul-21 2:08

Thanks. I was speaking about him.

562 edits to the article[^] still are a bit too much for my taste and a bit suspicious after that bunch of non related messages.

But I don't want to report it, that's why I suggested the "some words from the staff".

M.D.V.

Sean Ewington27-Jul-21 2:18

Article added seems removed-

27-Jul-21 2:18

I did try to reason with him. I will try something else.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Sreejith Kizhakkedath21-Jul-21 4:23

Sreejith Kizhakkedath

21-Jul-21 4:23

I had added one article in this site and it seems removed.

Please check.

Re: Article added seems removed-

Richard MacCutchan21-Jul-21 5:35

Richard MacCutchan

21-Jul-21 5:35

What was the title, and what section did you post it at?

Re: Article added seems removed-

Greg Utas21-Jul-21 6:54

Greg Utas

21-Jul-21 6:54

See here[^].

Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

Re: Article added seems removed-

Richard MacCutchan21-Jul-21 9:02

Richard MacCutchan

21-Jul-21 9:02

another lemon from the same tree ?

BillWoodruff19-Jul-21 10:55

BillWoodruff

19-Jul-21 10:55

@sean-ewington

The author of (still posted now, originally posted June 25, 1.20/5 10 votes): [^] ...

is back (July 8) with: [^] which is as just as disorganized as the first tip-trick. It repeats much of the content of the first post.

If anyone(s) did try to assist this poster (Sean ?), clearly that hasn't worked.

imho, both pieces should be removed.

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

Re: another lemon from the same tree ?

Sean Ewington20-Jul-21 1:16

20-Jul-21 1:16

I really appreciate your care and concern for CodeProject as always. Deleting articles is my go-to tool in probably far too many cases. Sometimes I reach out to reason with an author while their article is in the submission queue, but the article either gets approved while I wait for a response, or the author doesn't respond at all. In rare cases, like this one, I let the author's article live while trying to teach them how CodeProject articles work. I think this author really needs to experience feedback from the community, whether by votes or by comments. Maybe CodeProject isn't for them. Perhaps some day I will go back and remove these posts, but for now, I'd like to see how the community effects them and the author.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

not an article ?

BillWoodruff19-Jul-21 10:25

BillWoodruff

19-Jul-21 10:25

[^]

This is an abstract series of notes on the design and semantics of a specific language compiler.

There is no downloadable example.

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

Nelek19-Jul-21 10:35

19-Jul-21 10:35

It was pending and got auto-approved without moderation after the edit / corrections of a CP Editor.

I already rised the "issue" in the B&S a time ago, but either got forgotten or is not important enough and got relegated in the ToDo-List due to low priority.

M.D.V.

BillWoodruff19-Jul-21 10:58

BillWoodruff

19-Jul-21 10:58

Hi, should I be posting such issues in B&S, rather than here ? thanks, Bill

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

Nelek20-Jul-21 3:22

20-Jul-21 3:22

I don't think so...

your complain was correct here as it was speaking about the article. I just gave you a small feedback of what probably happened.

M.D.V.

Sean Ewington20-Jul-21 1:05

Interrogating the Excel VBA 'Filters' object

20-Jul-21 1:05

It seems the author has responded favourably to your comment. I'd like to wait and see how they improve their article.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

captaincoder215-Jul-21 16:27

captaincoder2

15-Jul-21 16:27

<pre>
I need to interrogate the Filters object to learn what columns have active filters (Filter.On = True) and what the filter criteria are for each filter.
The problem that I have encountered is that the Filters object does not contain any information about which column each Filters.Item relates to.
There is no real problem if all columns have been ‘enabled’ for filters (i.e. each column header cell has a down-pointing arrow), because Filters.Count = the number of columns in the worksheet, and I can easily associate each filter with its relevant column.
But when some (but not all) columns have been ‘enabled’ for filters (for example columns 4-8), I have not been able to discover an algorithm for correlating each of the 5 filters with its relevant column.
Can the hive mind I know and love as Code Project please help me.
</pre>

Re: Interrogating the Excel VBA 'Filters' object

Richard Deeming15-Jul-21 20:57

Richard Deeming

15-Jul-21 20:57

You've posted this in the forum dedicated to questions about writing articles for CodeProject, which is not the correct place.

Either post your question in the Visual Basic forum[^], or in Quick Answers[^].

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- Homer

Rolling back to a draft.

Jon McKee11-Jul-21 12:59

Jon McKee

11-Jul-21 12:59

Is there anyway to rollback to a draft? I was editing, accidentally clicked a toolbar icon which navigated away from CP, and on reflex hit my "back" button on my mouse which reloaded the old pre-edit page which then triggered an auto-save.

The rollback button seems to do nothing useful when it comes to drafts, and no matter what I've tried anytime I click "Update Article", even when viewing a draft, it only lets me update the newest version.

I can always copy-paste the raw draft HTML and just overwrite the new version, but is this the only intended solution?

Re: Rolling back to a draft.

Sean Ewington11-Jul-21 21:50

Re: Rolling back to a draft.

11-Jul-21 21:50

Thanks very much for your message. Is this the article you're working on?
Type System Features[^]
Just to check, did you enable "Show auto-saved drafts"? You can try rolling back to one of those. Otherwise if you send me the URL (or just the ID at the end av=6720275) I'd be happy to try and do it and see if something is busted.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Jon McKee12-Jul-21 8:53

Jon McKee

12-Jul-21 8:53

I already fixed it by just manually re-editing the latest version of the article.

What I had tried before was enable "show auto-saved drafts" which let me view the draft and then used "rollback" on that draft. When going to "Update Article" afterwards though, nothing had changed. I'm not sure if it's because "Update Article" was still stuck on v2 and hadn't updated to point to the new v3 that the rollback created or what.

EDIT:
For more details, I was on v2, rolled back to 6720279 which created v3, but "update article" seemed to still be stuck on v2 so I had no way to use/edit v3. So I manually re-edited whatever "update article" was pointing to in order to create the current v4.

modified 12-Jul-21 15:00pm.

Re: Rolling back to a draft.

Sean Ewington12-Jul-21 9:32