On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 01:54 PM, Shal Farley wrote:

After you get it into Excel you'll (probably) need to use the Text-to-Columns tool to split that one column of comma-delimited text into separate columns for the fields of the membership records.

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The advantage of saving it to a file is that if you give the file a .csv extension, Excel should fill the columns properly when it's opened.

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Is there a way to download an excel file of all group members?? When I click Download under Members, it just opens a page with emails and 1s and 0s.

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On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:25 AM, Chris Vaughan wrote:

This means I have a edit each message coming in to highlight it is from an external person and to remind the group that a reply will go to just the group and special action is required to reply to the sender.

I have no hands - on experience of allowing non - members to post but as far as I can see there are currently no automatic processes available to help. That said a couple of points spring to mind.

How big is your committee? Is it so large that its members cannot spot a post from a non - member without your having to flag it up for them? I think I would also argue that it should not be necessary to explain that replies to a non - member post will only be seen by members and not the non - member; point that fact out once by all means, but not every time!

Further to the point about emphasising the fact that any given post is from a non - member, how do you currently do that? Do you insert a line of "bold text" in the body of the message or what? It crossed my mind that you could set up a "Non - Member Post" hashtag and insert that during moderation, but while hashtags show up clearly on the web UI they are not necessarily all that obvious if members are using email access. If the hashtag idea works for you you could always ask Mark (on beta) if he can provide the option of adding an automated hastage to non - member posts, although how much traction that suggestion would get is anyone's guess.

I can fully see that the present system does require some additional work for you but you can perhaps minimise it by encouraging your (committee) members to develop a reasonable understanding of how Groups.io works without your having to explain it to them all the time. I'm all for helping people (i.e. individual group members) but I draw the line if I suspect that someone expects to be spoon - fed in perpetuity.

Chris

Frances, I would not want to invite them. The group is for a committee and allowing non committee members to send the very occasional email to the committee is useful.
There would then be discussion within the group prior to replying to the external person. I would not want them to see all the emails of the committee.

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 06:25 AM, Marina wrote:

Is there a way to show automatically the creation date?

Select "added table" from the Actions menu of the activity log search engine. Not very "automatic," but I'm pretty sure that's the only way. If you want to make this visible to subscribers you will have to manually put the date in the Description.

Hope this helps,
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On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:21 AM, Amy wrote:

I have used the RSVP feature for roughly four events a month since November and my subscribers still get confused about being logged on.
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Anyone else have thoughts on this??

I agree that it's disconcerting to click on a "Vote Now" or "RSVP" button only to have it "do nothing."

This seems to be an insurmountable hurdle for many folks. It would be nice to be able to RSVP -- or respond to a poll -- without having to log in at all. If this inquiry evolves into a feature request for beta, I believe that should be it. However, I suspect the problem will never be fully addressed until Mark completes his work on the groups.io app.

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Chris, could you send the person an invitation to your group?

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I created a new table in the Database section of my group. The only date shown next to the title refers to the last update of the table. Is there a way to show automatically the creation date?

Thank you,
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I have a group for a committee that is members only and I have set "Allow Non Subscribers to Post " to yes, so that external people can post but their emails are moderated.
Then if the email the external persons sends I can approve it.
All works fine up to this point.

The issue I am having is that the email that goes to the group from the external user has no indication that they are not a group member. Also Reply to Sender does not seem to work.
Reply to Group does just what is says and leaves out the external person (correctly I think).

This means I have a edit each message coming in to highlight it is from an external person and to remind the group that a reply will go to just the group and special action is required to reply to the sender.

Is there any way to help with this? Any help gratefully received.

Hi folks,

I have used the RSVP feature for roughly four events a month since November and my subscribers still get confused about being logged on.

What I think would help the most is that if they're not logged on and they click on "Click here to RSVP" in an email, that there be some kind of message that says, "You need to log on."? Then, just as importantly, once they've logged on, that they be returned to the RSVP page.? Right now they're not returned there, and they actually have to go all the way back to the email and click again on the link.? A bit convoluted... and not surprising that I've lost folks along the way.

Anyone else have thoughts on this?? Thanks!
Amy


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Thanks Bruce, I've found the appended category name on the subgroups. I poked around to see if the category was available for sorting, etc. and couldn't find it being used for anything. ?

Our group uses subgroups for the newsletter, board, committees and classes & retreats. ?Once the classes & retreats pass I lock them but now we have so many subgroups it's confusing. ?I guess I'll just try and capture the data and delete them.
Gina

On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 04:28 PM, Night Owls Owner wrote:

I'm researching how to clean up our subgroups and noticed the categories button. ?I've created one category, named it archived, and assigned it to a bunch of our subgroups. But what does it do??? Can I split off categories of subgroups?

When you assign a category to a subgroup, the category name is appended [in square brackets like this] to that subgroup's name in the display of Subgroups. Other than adding this label, it doesn't seem to do anything, that I've been able to determine; but I don't have a lot of subgroups and my experience with it is limited by that.

See also?/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/29932140

I'm not giving you much to go on. If you can report back on any findings, I think we would all appreciate it.

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I'm researching how to clean up our subgroups and noticed the categories button. ?I've created one category, named it archived, and assigned it to a bunch of our subgroups. But what does it do??? Can I split off categories of subgroups??
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On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 02:19 PM, Prasad wrote:

Later I attempted muting of a message in one of my groups and it did not work. I must be missing something.

Muting will inhibit delivery of subsequent messages in that topic...but only as sent via email. It has no effect on the visibility of messages while viewing online.

Such a feature has often been requested. And before you ask, you can only mute topics, not subscribers.? :-)

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