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notaslave:
The only agency that SS properly reports the acceptance status for is Alamy it seems (out of the 9 I submit to). Is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong? The other agencies only show uploaded and then submitted status.

Niakris:

--- Quote from: notaslave on July 24, 2020, 11:43 ---The only agency that SS properly reports the acceptance status for is Alamy it seems (out of the 9 I submit to). Is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong? The other agencies only show uploaded and then submitted status.

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In fact, StockSubmitter doesn't track approval status for any agency.
Alamy has QC as a pre-submission step, hence if a file gets submitted it's already approved, so SS assigns the Approved status upon submission there.

If you want to see approval status for other agencies you can try using Microstock.Plus instead.

notaslave:
Appreciate your reply! Do you plan on adding this functionality in the future? Automatically marking files as pending / accepted / rejected - It shouldn't be hard to fetch this info from the API and it would be really useful to know which files require further editing and which are 100% accepted (without the need to manually check and update the status), unless this is this intentional, so that your cloud program has more features? Thanks

ShadySue:

--- Quote from: notaslave on July 27, 2020, 05:39 ---Appreciate for your reply! Do you plan on adding this functionality in the future? Automatically marking files as pending /accepted / rejected? Shouldn't be hard to fetch this info from the API and it would be really useful to know which files require further editing and which are 100% accepted (without the need to manually check and update the status), unless this is this intentional, so that your cloud program has more features? Thanks

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Even with Alamy, after files are accepted, it's smart to go back in, choose super-tags and fill in all the optional infomation - most of that is actually important! (Apologies if you can already do all that in MicrostockSubmitter.)

Niakris:
It's much more complicated to implement this feature in StockSubmitter than in Microstock.Plus because StockSubmitter doesn't keep a central database of files and instead is using your JPEG files to store any metadata and statuses.
Also, it's not just using some API, we have to actually imitate the real browser and parse the raw pages of the websites to determine the statuses.

If you really want to have your approval statuses tracked while using StockSubmitter you can try activating M+ in the Agencies settings window and check the upload checkbox for M+ to let your files be uploaded through M+. Also make sure you allow M+ to perform the submission - it'll then submit the files, track approvals and synchronize statuses back to StockSubmitter (unless you've moved/renamed the files on your hard drive).

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