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Originally Posted by erikxxon

When i try to Add Article Bot I get this Error message?
What does it mean?

Do i have to create a member on the forum first with this "Bot name"?



ErikXXon
Ill have VB 3.0.3

I had the same problem at first. You need to use the numerical user ID e.g. "12" not the user name when you set it up in Add Article Bot. After you have that set up with the number, it should display the user name

There are probably a dozen different ways to do it, but to find the number, I went to Admin CP -> Users -> Search for Users -> Show All Users and then just let the pointer "hover" over the User link in the left hand column, the last part of the link will say something like "userid=12" where "12" is the numerical user ID in this case.

The question for the user is: Do you want feeds to show up as posts belonging to some user? For the set up with My Furl, it kind of makes sense to have web links that I added show up as from my user, but for many kinds of feeds, it is probably better to set up some bogus user like "Articlebot" and have the posts show up as belonging to that user.

You probably also want to create a New Forum where the articles will go rather than having them posted to another, already existing forum. When you create the forum, you may want to think about whether to "Count Posts Made in this Forum Towards User Post Counts." I decided to leave that "Yes" since people might post replies to some of the articles that show up. However, some people can get ridiculously competetive about post counts and might complain that it is "unfair" so keep that in mind