Step 7: Manual Submit

Important warnings before submitting the galleries:
1. Make sure you are on-line. You need to be for the submission!
2. Make sure that all galleries, images and recips were uploaded to the server (Step 5);
3. If needed, you can set the proxy server address and other connection properties in the Internet Explorer settings (open directly by clicking on the IE Options shortcut button).

If you wish to disable the possibility of viewing images or own notes on individual sites in loaded pages to be submitted, or you want to disable Active X controls during manual submitting, you can do so in Advanced Options. To open the Advanced tab quickly just hit the Advanced button in Tools.

Once the preparation is completed, you can begin submitting…

The table contains a list of sites generated for the manual submit with assigned galleries. The sites are marked ‘M‘ (Manual) in the Type column.
The galleries for which automatic submission failed are moved from the Report tab for manual re-submit, marked ‘A‘ (Auto) in the same column and shown against a background highlight.

Manual Submit:

Select the number of simultaneous submit processes in # of Windows (up to 10) and click on Submit to begin.
You will see an authorization dialog box where you need to fill in your Chameleon Login and Password. Next click on the Authorize button to open new browser windows with the submit forms of the sites on the list. The currently opened sites are marked with an arrow on the list.

Arrange the opened windows on your desktop as desired. The window arrangement will be restored when you open the pages next. If you want to revert to the default arrangement (Cascade), click on Arrange.

If you wish to close all opened submit pages in one step (to suspend or terminate the manual submission) click on the Later All button. This will close all windows and the unfinished submits are automatically stored for future re-submit (they will be marked ‘Later’ in the Result column).

Browser Window:

Check the automatically completed form data on the submit page and correct/add the missing data.

If you need to fill in the submit form, click on the Fill in Form button for automatic completion (or press Ctrl+Alt+F).
If you need to fill in the Gallery URL, click the relevant button in Tools to copy it to clipboard and paste it to the relevant form field by using CTRL+V.
Follow the same procedure to enter the path to a sample thumbnail on your computer unless it is completed automatically (not supported in versions earlier than IE 5.0).

The category under the navigation menu displays the CS category for which the site was generated. This information can help you in case that no category was automatically selected in the form. In such case we recommend to select the category closest to the one displayed or to select its sub-category.

Send out the filled data like you would in a standard manual submit.

If the submission to a site was successful, click on the Submit Successful button in the top right corner (or press Alt+S) . If not, click on Submit Failed (Alt+E). If you wish to postpone submission to this site, click on Submit Later (Alt+L).
The current window closes and another is opened, downloading the submit page of the next site.

Continue in the same way until you’ve submitted to all sites assigned for manual submit.

The results of manual submission you reported are automatically recorded in the Result column. They are provided for your use as a summary of manual submit success rate.
Select the View Result command in the context menu or double-click a row in the Result column to view detailed result of the manual submit with the stored result page of the site.
All result pages are automatically stored in a subfolder named ‘log’ in your template gallery directory (without graphics).

If you are not satisfied with the result of the submit (and if you accidentally confirmed the submit by clicking on Submit Successful or Submit Failed buttons) you can cancel this result and resubmit to the site. To do this, select the site and choose Resubmit from the context menu. The result will be deleted and you can repeat the submit by clicking the Submit button.

Tips & Tricks:

• If you want to avoid re-entering the Login and Password for authorization, store them on the Advanced tab (File > Options > Advanced).
• To speed up the whole process of manual submitting we recommend disabling the feature of displaying images on loaded pages to be submitted. Just check Do Not Display Images in the Advanced tab. Please note that this setting will have no impact on displaying image codes in forms (IE 5+).
  If you for some reason wish to display images only on a certain loaded page to be submitted, despite the setting, just click Ctrl+Alt+F5.
• Notes display your own comments on each site. The notes can be added/edited directly in the Manual Submit windows before they are closed (i.e. before clicking on Submit Successful/Later/Failed).
• You can submit manually even during an ongoing auto submit (Step 6). The submit forms, however, will take longer to load and their response may be slower. This is especially true in case you have a slow connection.
• If the tracking code failed to load correctly, right-click it and select Show Picture from the context menu.
• If you want to have codes completed in forms automatically, make sure you have sufficient free space in the ‘Temporary Internet Files’ folder. Please clean the folder contents regularly.
• Chameleon TGP/MGP Submitter supports automatic logging for those sites that require HTTP authorization (in a separate dialog box) before loading a submit form.
  In case your login info is incorrect and authorization has not been successful, click the Later button. When submitting to other sites is finished, this invalid login info could be corrected directly in Site Details in the database, and finish up the submitting process.
• If you wish to verify the settings of a site in the database during the submit process, just select Edit Site from the context menu. If necessary, you can change some settings after the submit process has been completed but these changes will only be applied when the new gallery is submitted (when new sites are generated). Please note that we strongly discourage changing settings in the database during the submit process because some changes may disrupt the submit process!
  In any case, whenever settings in Site Details change we recommend to safeguard the setting against unwanted changes during the automatic Database Update by locking the whole site in Site Details. Find more information on site settings in the Database (Site Details).
• If windows still switch spontaneously during manual submit, please check the application switching settings of your system. To do this you can use the free Tweak UI tool which is available for download on Microsoft web pages. All you need to do is activate the ‘Prevent applications from stealing focus’ check-box in the General tab.
• If windows still switch spontaneously during manual submit, please check the application switching settings of your system. To do this you can use the free Tweak UI tool which is available for download on Microsoft web pages. All you need to do is activate the ‘Prevent applications from stealing focus’ check-box in the General tab.
• The sites moved from the Report tab for manual resubmit after an unsuccessful automatic submission attempt have the result of the autosubmit in the Result column (after ‘Later:’), until you have manually submitted them. The autosubmit result is then replaced by the current status.
• If you wish to save the submit results in an HTML file, select Save All Results in the context menu. You will be able to review the results in the History of submitted galleries.
  In such case, do not delete the ‘log’ folder in the directory of your gallery, or the links will not be displayed correctly!
  If you do not need to review the results later, you can delete the ‘log’ folder from the gallery folder as soon as the submit is finished.
• If you have your own groups you can use the Copy and Delete commands of the context menu to move or delete sites from groups according to their results.
• Double-click the site name in the Site Name column to open the main page of the site in a new browser window.
• The page which is opened during manual submit can be controlled like while browsing. To do this, use the control buttons in the top left corner – Back, Forward, Stop, Refresh.
• If you discover during the submit process that you made an error in the gallery description, click on Later All. Return to Step 1 to correct the description and confirm the change by clicking on the Save&Continue button. Then click on the Manual Submit tab and continue submitting.
  If you made an error when entering other information (e.g. the # of pics, categories, hosting, etc.) which directly affects the selection of sites suitable for submit, we strongly recommend to repeat the whole process.

Step 6: Auto Submit

Important warnings before submitting the galleries:
1. Make sure you are on-line. You need to be for the submission!
2. Make sure that all galleries, images and recips were uploaded to the server (Step 5);
3. Enter your valid HTTP and SMTP parameters in the Connection tab (File > Options > Connection). You can use the Connection shortcut button to open this tab directly.
Once the preparation is completed, you can begin submitting…

Auto Submit:

If you wish to run auto submit at a specific time, check Schedule, select the date in the calendar and the time when the auto submit should commence.
If you want to run auto submit immediately, leave Schedule unchecked.

Select the number of simultaneous submits to sites in the Threads box. The maximum is 10 threads and the value you set depends on the speed of your connection – set a lower number of threads if your connection is slow and vice versa.

To start auto submit (scheduled or immediate) click the Start button (blue arrow). An authorization dialog box opens and you will be requested to enter your chameleon Login and Password. Click on Authorize button to launch the auto submission process / activate the scheduled auto submit.

An ongoing auto submit can be interrupted at any time by clicking on Pause button or Stop button.
If you click on Pause the process runs until the ongoing site submits are completed;
Clicking on Stop will immediately terminate auto submit irrespective of any ongoing submissions (except e-mail submits).

If you wish to continue the auto submit, restart by clicking on Continue button. Auto submission will continue from the point where you interrupted it.

Scheduled auto submit can be canceled at any moment by clicking on the Stop button.

If you want to make sure that your computer is automatically switched off after auto submit is finished, check Power off when finished.

View the results of automatic submission by clicking on the Report tab (Step 8).
If you want to continue submitting manually, click on the Manual Submit tab (Step 7).

Tips & Tricks:

• If you want to avoid re-entering the Login and Password for authorization, store them on the Advanced tab (File > Options > Advanced).
• You can monitor the progress of submission on the Progress bar which displays the percentage of performed submits in the total number of all sites generated for Auto Submit. Submission Progress boxes show the ongoing process in separate threads;
• Click on Pause to suspend the submit process if you need to check the submitted gallery report. Click on Stop as soon as submission is completed in all threads. You can then switch to the Report tab.
  Click on Start again to resume the submit process. In this way you can suspend the submission at any time. It can be resumed later even if the Chameleon TGP/MGP Submitter has been closed and reopened;
• You can submit manually (in Step 7) even during an ongoing auto submit. The submit forms, however, will take longer to load and their response may be slower. This is especially true in case you have a slow connection;
• Scheduled auto submit only works for currently generated galleries. It is not possible to schedule auto submit for several different galleries at once!
• After the auto submit (scheduled or immediate) commences it is not possible to edit the database or preceding tabs (e.g. prepare the submit of the next gallery).
• If you discover during the submit process that you made an error in the gallery description, click on Stop. Return to Step 1 to correct the description and confirm the change by clicking on the Save&Continue button (ONLY in the appropriate step, i.e. Step 1). Then click on the Auto Submit tab and continue submitting / reactivate scheduled auto submit.
  If you made an error when entering other information (e.g. the # of pics, categories, hosting, etc.) which directly affects the selection of sites suitable for submit, we strongly recommend to repeat the whole process.
• Chameleon TGP/MGP Submitter must remain open after scheduled auto submit is activated or else the submit will not be able to begin as scheduled.
• If you wish to change the date/time of the scheduled auto submit, click on Stop, correct the date/time and click on Start again.
• You can activate/deactivate automatic shut-down of the computer after completion of auto submit at any time, even while auto submit (scheduled or immediate) is running.