Edit a game and click on the the "Upload it to the IF Archive" link. Upload a file to the IF Archive. This will create an ifarchive-pending link in the External Links table.
… but that table won't actually get saved to the DB unless you have the presence of mind to click "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page.
If you don't have the presence of mind to Save Changes, or if you delete/edit the pending URL, or if you navigate directly to https://ifdb.org/ifarchive-upload (so there's no window.opener), the IF Archive upload will succeed, and the archive team will run ifdbize.py to call the /ifarchive-commit API on IFDB, but it will fail with the error, "Error: no link found to this pending URL", so IFDB won't get updated.
Edit a game and click on the the "Upload it to the IF Archive" link. Upload a file to the IF Archive. This will create an
ifarchive-pendinglink in the External Links table.… but that table won't actually get saved to the DB unless you have the presence of mind to click "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page.
If you don't have the presence of mind to Save Changes, or if you delete/edit the pending URL, or if you navigate directly to https://ifdb.org/ifarchive-upload (so there's no
window.opener), the IF Archive upload will succeed, and the archive team will runifdbize.pyto call the/ifarchive-commitAPI on IFDB, but it will fail with the error, "Error: no link found to this pending URL", so IFDB won't get updated.