Thank you, Shal! Works Great!

Cindy,

but the auto generated email says the person is invited by my email
address

I wrote:

Set your display name. I believe that will be used together with your email address.

Correction. Your Display Name will be used instead of your email address.

You can set your display name on a group-by-group basis from your group profile, which you can reach through a tab on the Subscription page in any group, or through the Identity page in your Account.

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Ken,

*does EVERYONE have access to the diffs*? I thought only Mods????

Everyone does. Take a look at any group's Wiki pages.

Same is true of messages, in groups which allow messages to be edited after posting.

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Thanks, Bruce, for your response.

I currently use the integration for a few of our local choirs' FB pages (moderated) so that I can let *our* choir (mail list hosted on groups.io) know of things of interest posted on FB by our, and other choirs. I am not on FB myself, but otherwise run all internal/external communication for our choir. So getting a moderation notice when our own Facebook people post something is helpful to *me* (because it's a pain to look at a FB public page when you're not logged in, half obscured by "join now!" pop ups etc.) and then if it's of interest to the choir as a whole, I approve it to go out to our mailing list.

I also have set up a separate, completely private personal group just for myself where I have local city/community FB pages integrated so I can monitor local events. I'm the only member of that group, and the only thing I do is use it to see if something local is going on. So, it's not exactly "posting" to anyone but me. For better or worse, I'm not concerned about the legality of cross-posting since it's really only for my own eyes, to get a ping to see if there's a reason to check out a Facebook page.

I have integrated so far about 8 or 9 pages between these two groups, and never had the error message until I tried to add my local city's page feed. (I already have a handful of choirs, our downtown city organization, our local birding association, a local business... and they were all set up months ago.)?

But, trying to add *any* new page gives me that same error message. And, I'm being quite random in my selection for testing purposes: global, *big* companies, tourism organizations (that you'd think would life a country restriction since they want foreign eyes), big tech-oriented global news sites (who would know to lift restrictions).? I really have sampled a WIDE cross section of sites, and NOTHING is apparently the name of a Facebook page. That's why I'm thinking it's something about the API or the initial request for integration. My current integrations work just fine, so it really is at the "try to set up the integration" stage. And, I've tried adding new integrations (for testing purposes) to BOTH my choir group and this private personal one I created. Same thing is happening.?

It's not a huge deal for me right now, since I don't have an urgent need to integrate this one page. But there is definitely something going on somewhere, if I can't add any integrations to any groups. I'm not using a VPN and I'm on a Chromebook browsing in Chrome, which is how I initially added integrations. If it's possible for the problem to be me, since I'm doing this all from the same account (an owner of both groups) I'm all ears! But, I've exhausted every possibility I can think of on my end. Assuming that the error message is descriptive of what's actually happening, I'm left thinking that groups.io can't see those (any?) Facebook pages when I input the URL for some reason (and I've tried using the full URL, with and without trailing slash, just the name slug etc.)

Now I'm just really curious as to why this is happening, and why no one else seems to be having this problem.? :)

Marcio,

If I have a moderated group (that is, a group like this one for
example), is there a way of making sure that a person will be able to
bypass this moderation (that is, their messages will be automatically
aproved)?

Yes. In his/her membership page change the Posting Privileges setting to "Override: not moderated".

It is "under construction", but see also:
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 06:54 PM, Sarah Rainsberger wrote:

But, I've tried so many different, public pages, that I'd be surprised if they *all* had these restrictions.

Sarah -- I owe you an apology...I frankly didn't read your post carefully. It seems you have already encountered (and read) the wiki entry on this topic that I wrote some months ago. The fact that it's almost 2 AM here may have been a factor. :-)

Facebook, by default, leaves age and country restrictions turned on for every page. They have to be manually turned off, and few people seem to know how to do that. To this point no one has reported an inability to complete the integration if they follow the previously-provided instructions on a Facebook page that they actually own.?

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Just because something is visible online does not mean it is in the public domain. If you've gotten a page owner's written permission to cross-post their content, fine...perhaps you can ask them to lift the age and country restrictions, too. Otherwise, please give serious consideration to any legal issues that could arise.

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Hi Lavon,

In Admin, Members, click on Download.
More detail in the wiki -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Member-List-Download

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On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 06:54 PM, Sarah Rainsberger wrote:

Is there a known current issue with adding new FB integrations right now?

In order for the integration to work, the page must be public, and have no country or age restrictions.?See??for details.
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Also, it only works for pages, not Facebook groups.

Try logging out of Facebook. If after doing so, you can no longer access your page, then you don't have it (your Facebook page) set up right. Keep working on it until you can. At that point the integration should work, too.

Hope this helps,
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Guys,
This may seem a strange question but anyway, here it goes.

If I have a moderated group (that is, a group like this one for example), is there a way of making sure that a person will be able to bypass this moderation (that is, their messages will be automatically aproved)?
Just curious...

As always, thanks a lot for any and all help!

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Chris,

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Frances,

Is there a known current issue with adding new FB integrations right now? Like an API change perhaps? I have a few integrations already, and those already set up are working fine. But, for the life of me, I can't get any new pages to add.

There is one public FB page I want to add to one groups.io group, but when it didn't work I tried adding a handful of other public FB pages to two different groups.io groups, and nothing seems to work. Yes, they are public Facebook pages (not groups). I'm not logged into FB when I view them. In fact, I don't even have a Facebook account and that's why I use the integration to monitor some public pages and be notified of new posts.

I noticed in the Wiki that these integrations won't work if the page has country or age restrictions, which I am not in a position to check since those aren't my pages. But, I've tried so many different, public pages, that I'd be surprised if they *all* had these restrictions.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

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Hi everyone who hasn’t muted this topic!

One more point about group email address - if you want the group in the directory of groups, it files it by email address. So choosing a good email address is useful, I think!
(Although there is now a search box on that screen. Hurray!)

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Hi all,

No problem. De-highlighted most. Added that it is a work in progress!

One area that concerns me is the initial step - choosing the email address. The official help is silent on this and it has been awhile since I created a new group.?

What is the relationship between the group email address and group name? ?My example was for a fictitious group for vintage pickle jar collectors. I thought there was a close connection so I wrote: “An account is identified by its?email address. Decide on the email address.?This is also the name for your group.?Example - vintagepicklejars
The suffix will be @groups.io”

I know when you go to Settings, you can edit the group name. ?In this case add in “collectors”. But I don’t think you can edit the email address. Or can you?

I started this section based on my perception that new members need it. And since the wiki is public, even potential users can see it.?

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That was for Francis's benefit -- does EVERYONE have access to the diffs?? I thought only Mods???? Live and learn.

de-highlight is easy -? I do it all the time.? I have text?HL'd in continuously updated generic reports that I will need to update for the "next" report issuance --?
Save again after edits, and just before printing (PDF-ng) -?Select all - de-highlight.? 2 eazy peazy strokes.

-k

Cindy,

but the auto generated email says the person is invited by my email address

Set your display name. I believe that will be used together with your email address.

Shal
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We are almost ready to launch our invite-only group but the auto generated email says the person is invited by my email address, not the name of the group or a real person's name. I can't see a way to edit this. Please help!