I just entered a test ad purchase into my system. All looked to go well with 2 exceptions. Thankfully I have it set to not run until I approve and was able to see the following issues:

1) Even though I have nofollow set to yes, the banner came over with nofollow set to no.

2) The start date was shown as 12/31/69 17:00:00 for the start date.

Any ideas what the issue might be. I tried to search the forum but didnt see this bug. Thanks

The start date bug isn't technically a bug. It's just that before a payment is made, there is no start date. The admin editor will still try and format the empty value into a date (might force it to appear blank in a future version though).

The nofollow one is a good spot - the actual problem is that the option shouldn't appear at all unless the zone nofollow value is "user choice" (because otherwise its the zone settings that dictate what happens, not the ad settings). The nofollow value of the ad will still be correct, which is probably why it hasn't been reported before. I'll correct the display in the next version.

The "subscribe to discussion" plugin for this forum has always been hit and miss. I managed to track down what the issue was, but have had to relay my findings to the plugin author so that he can fix it (I don't have time at the moment myself).

Ok, so another issue. I just scheduled it and approved a banner to run Start: Wed 1 July 2009 (which it shows in the admin console), and just checked the site, where it is not yet JULY 1st, and it is live....

#1) your response ignores my previous question
#2) Regarding your response - That is exactly my point. Why isnt it marked as queued?

Questions I missed earlier:

1) So, if I go and just approve something, without editing it first, what date will it start at? There is no option for the user to put in a date. What if they want to order an ad starting next wed, for example?

See above for a more detailed explanation. In short, you can't schedule posts to start on a particular day in the future. The queue only kicks in when another ad expires.

2) Clarification on the nofollow - you are correct that no option was shown to me as a test user when ordering, which is good. However, when it came over for me to approve, it was "no" for nofollow, even though I have set everything as "yes" for no follow, so I have to manually edit and change each one - which is when I discovered the date issue as well.

I might not have explained it well initially, but because you set the nofollow status of the zone to "yes", all the ads will have nofollow attached to them, even if the individual ads have a nofollow status of "no". The only issue was that you shouldn't see the nofollow dropdown menu at all when the zone is set to not give the user the choice.

3) Thanks, I feel better cause Ive always asked that someone email me when there is a reply and last time I was emailed with a note saying that if I wanted to subscribe to the topic, it is easy to do, so I felt like an idiot in that I dont see anyway - now I feel better. bout that.

Yes, it's quite a pain that it never worked properly. Hopefully it will get sorted out by the guy who wrote it.