You may have noticed something strange about Bills' Blog post "My first Post from BBMetaBlog".  When that post is viewed on the home page you see the content fine.  However when you open that post directly via the permalink the content doesn't render.  Something is breaking the rendering engine.

I chatted with Declan about it yesterday and after he very kindly debugged it we now know what's happening.

The MetaWebLog agent (xml-rpc) when it's called by any MetaWebLog client (inc bbMetaBlog) to create a new post calls the Document "compute with form" method for the new blog entry.  This has the side effect of converting some rich text fields it adds to the document into text fields. When the rendering engine then renders the post it tries to render the "$BS_Attachments$" tag expecting it to be a RTF and when it's not it breaks.

Declan suggested two workarounds although he hinted at a possible Blogsphere v3 Beta 8a release with a fixed up xml-rpc agent.  In the interim if you are interested in the workarounds they are:

•      Edit the affected story with your Notes client or
•      Remove the "$BS_Attachments$" flag from the layout document

For now that means if you are a user of more recent versions of Blogsphere v3 you can use bbMetaBlog for creating draft blog entries (not ideal I know but still useful) or you can do the workaround thing.

All my fault really whilst i tested against my own BlogSphere blogs I hadn't upgraded them in a while and so didn't spot the problem.  Can't praise Declan enough though. He was tremendously helpful yesterday. Thanks Declan!