Can not publish blog post on community

[Former Member]

We needed to publish an urgent blog post but have a problem on SAP Community about writing a blog post. Because we needed urgent assistance, we contacted to phone support and customer support agent that we talked on the phone asked us to create a ticket to be able to reach to sap community administrators with high priority since the deadline was September 1. We created a ticket but as I expected they said that they can not help problems about community through tickets.

We have already sent an email regarding to this issue to community@sap.com on friday morning. Since we still did not receive any response from them so far we would appreciate your assistance regarding to speed up the process.

Thanks in advance.

[TammyPowlas]

Hi - you can also try contacting network at sap dot com

Please note today is a US holiday, so please be patient.

[pokrakam]

Just wondering, how exactly can a blog be urgent?

[agentry_src]

mike.pokraka Must have something to do with an already scheduled event to which the blog is designed to draw attention. Of course, the blog must not be important enough to do the actual research on how to be able to post a blog. And then put in the effort to actually become a blogger. BOSS: "I still don't know if we have enough traction for our event. Did you put in a marketing blog in the SAP Community?"

Also waiting until the last minute to figure out that there is a problem indicates a 6P kind of issue.

Cheers, Mike

[pokrakam]

agentry_src that was a semi-rhetorical question directed at the OP. I did think about event-type scenarios, but whichever way I turn it doesn't quite work. If it's an event that the world needs to know about NOW then I'm also thinking that blogs are not the right platform - a blog is more of a slow-burner, it will take several days to attract readers and then people need time to plan for events. So if you're that hard up against a deadline then it's already too late and there are likely better alternatives.

The other kind of blog that may be time sensitive is news. Here again if it's three days late then it's lost it's edge and you might as well go the normal process.

So I'm genuinely curious what is so super urgent that we're hitting all possible support channels for a community publication.

[agentry_src]

mike.pokraka ,

My response was mildly sarcastic. The points about lack of effort on the part of the blogger may perhaps affect their future posting promoting events. I did take your comments to be rhetorical.

Cheers, Mike

6Ps == Prior Planning Prevents Pi$$-Poor Performance

[kaus19d]

Hi Burak Efe,

You mentioned in your query, "deadline was September 1" and "needed to publish an urgent blog post". These are not the process here in SAP Community for posting blogs. Here I see that no other blogs were published earlier from your User Id & also the "SAP Community Tour" Tutorial incomplete, which makes you on "Subscriber: entry Level" in terms of blog posting, so that means you can become to "Contributor Level" after completing tutorial & then you submit your blog which would go for review by Moderator. Please go through the below to understand better,

https://www.sap.com/community/resources/blogging.html

Better, I would also recommend you to go through the below tutorial to get an overview on how we act here in SAP Community, there is no Deadline Type here as we all help each other in our free time, free of cost.

https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/community-start.html

Generally you should at least allow a day for the Moderators to review your Blog post. Once its reviewed you will be also notified & also in case any contradictory matters, then also you would receive review-comment from the Blog-Reviewer. Note that in case your blog goes against the "SAP Community Rules of Engagement", then also your blog does not get published. Also if you copied from some other blog or content or if there are a lot of similar contents available, then also your blog does not published. So, you see there are a lot of scenarios & conditions to check by a Blog-Reviewer before getting your blog published.

Hope you would understand the above details

Thanks,

Kaushik

[former_member322]

Hi Burak,

A person who needs to publish a blog post should check his profile's reputation snapshot: #snapshot
If it says "Subscriber", this person needs to go through a Community Start Tutorial - https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/community-start.html
After passing it just re-login to Blogs.sap.com in order for your "Contributor" permissions to be applied.

If a snapshot already says "Contributor" - the only thing left to do is to re-login.

Best regards
Kirill.