Chameleon Submitter

i'm new at PAR, so i watched the tutorials, after submitting the reqs in step 6, when the partner account mails come in the mailbox,
what are the steps to integrating the passwords to the database?

is confirmer able to do that or is it done another way ?

Once you get accepted by some site just go to step 3 - Partner Accounts, select the site row and click on Set Status / Login / Password. In the Set Status window select Approved and enter your login/password there. That's it

ok so once the PA's are submitted, we have to do this next part manually ourselves right? i'm just starting out here i'm sure more experienced users would not mind but i see like 200 sites to send PA reqs to and then handle on a day to day basis. hmm...

Checking the inbox, reading the subject and finding the confirmation email then once clicked, look for the return accept email. that's what i'm thinking is what we have to do.

Yunno, maybe there's a way to automate that part a bit more.

think the programmers could look into adding a new step to PAR ?

One that would save us time and worry, by just half automating the process.

Here's what i had in mind: so we send the reqs with PAR in step 6, then use Confirmer to click the links or do them manually. then spend our time switching windows from browser to PAR back and forth cutting and pasting info.

When you have more than 30 PA mails to go through there's an entire evening of work right there right ?

Yes, i think i've got an idea here, a new step 7 to PAR. This new feature (step7) would show us the list of emails in our inbox, we can either handle each email 1by1 or use a check box to handle a group for us with the simple push of a button.

when the email is opened, PAR can parse it to find the domain in the db and open the status window for us (we can tile both windows side by side).

It would then prefil the window with info from step1, and let us handle the corrections if necessary.

i'm thinking we could even extend this to a bunch of emails at once. checkboxes and instead of deleting emails, we,d click a "accepted" button for the whole lot or reject, that way we can set the status for those domains at once.

At this point all we did in PAR step7 was open the email, find the domain and fill in the blanks for us. but its a huge saving in terms of time. we don't have to keep switching windows from inbox and finding the domain then right click to set the status, PAR can display all that in a new step for us. we'd stay in the app the whole time, less running around various browsers and windows etc

We'd still have to read the mail ourselves to double check but it would save us some steps if the status window was prefilled with "accepted" and using today's date for "validity from", and the login info from step1.

i think it could be rather simple to implement within PAR. step7 would just read the messages in the inbox, display each line, we click 1, PAR opens the 2 windows we need and when done we just click the "delete email" button an move on to the next.

Do you think it could be possible ?

Well basically, by confirming an email you doesn't become a partner automatically, you should wait for an approval email instead. And this is something what the confirmer couldn't automatically recognise.
Anyway, you can access the Set Status window also when requesting - directly in the opened request windows - just click on the Set Status button (next to the Submit Successful/Later/Failed buttons) if you get accepted automatically.

the way i see it is, if the inbox is only used to tgp/mgp and confirmer doesn't find a link to confirm, logic says whats in the inbox is either an informational email from the tgp admins or just spam.

But the point was to make PAR handle that last step we have to do ourselves. i see it, and i'm sure other users do too, as an essential step that is missing from the program.

it basically just has to read the inbox and display those mails for us and when we open it inside PAR, it would load up the status window and set things to accept and the date for us, basically saving us allot of steps when you have like 50 or 60 of those sites to do. it could also display mails with confirmation links in case one or 2 arrives after running confirmer.

this new step would only have 3 windows : the main PAR window showing all emails in the inbox (necessary) then one for the chosen mail itself (allowing us to read it) and one for the status window associated to the domain found in the mail we're reading on screen. we could tile them on screen to get a good workflow.

i think it would basically make PAR more involved in the inbox process, which would make it a more complete program and not have to rely on the browser or a mail client. i think its a good thing.