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Creating Accounts
Select Account Manager from the Windows menu. The Account window will appear and display the current active accounts. You now have following options:
- Assistant: Creates a new account using an assistant. This is the easiest method to create an account as you only need to select your blog system and your blog address.
- New: Creates a new account manually. You will need to know the address of your blog system's access point.
- Update: Updates the selected account's blogs listing, settings and categories. ecto does this automatically on account creation, but if you have changed something in your blog system's control panel (for example, by adding categories), you will have to tell ecto to update its cached blog settings.
- Delete: Deletes the selected account. This does not remove blogs from your blog system.
To add a new account, click the "Assistant" toolbar icon. This brings up a sheet that assists you through a few steps:
- Select the blog system you are using. Depending on whether your blog is self-hosted or not, you may need to enter your blog's address so that ecto can retrieve the access point to your blog system (
(If ecto fails to retrieve this information, you may need to manually configure the account.)
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Once the access point has been determined, enter the username and password for your blog system and click "Next". ecto will then obtain a listing of your blogs from your blog system as well as any categories you have defined and your most recent posts.
If ecto failed to detect your blog system's access point, you will have to enter it manually. To find out what settings are appropriate for your blog system, consult this table.
If you need to change some details of an account, select it to reveal a settings pane.
For more information, click "Tell me more."
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