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Re: Vanishing email

 

And yes, the Discard button is smaller than Reply, as well as a different color. I'm pretty sure I didn't miss my target.
Re: Vanishing email

 

Thanks, Bruce; good to hear from you; I figured you'd jump right in. :^)? I did look for a draft. No joy.
Thanks, Chris. I also did look at the Activity Log. No luck there, either.
And thanks, Bob. I had already considered, based on this and previous experiences with both groups.io and Yahoo, that future messages will be composed in Word and pasted in. I am incredulous that groups.io does not save any PMs.
Re: Adding a group of members to multiple subgroups at one time

 

any chance there is a bulk add to subgroups for the free version?
Re: Vanishing email

 

Early on at groups.io I had a couple of long messages disappear.
The experience taught me to compose them off line, e.g. notpad or Word or? equivalent and to then copy/paste to groups.io.
I? have cured that problem
btw? this seems to happen with other online editors occasionally? also
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Re: Vanishing email

 

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 10:23 PM, Alex Sproul wrote:
It didn't go to anybody, and I didn't get my own bcc. What's wrong here?
Check the Activity Log just to see if it was sent or not, assuming you haven't looked there already.

Did you perhaps click on Discard by mistake?

Chris
Re: Vanishing email

 

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 05:23 PM, Alex Sproul wrote:
I just spent an hour composing an important message to lagging members. It was sent by going to Admin > Members and checking the appropriate members, then using Send Message to create. But when I clicked on Send to Members, poof, all my work disappeared into the ether. It didn't go to anybody, and I didn't get my own bcc. What's wrong here? Do I want to spend another hour recreating my message?
Alex -- If you browse away from the editor, groups.io automatically saves your message as a draft. So the first thing to do is check the left-side menu bar for a message Draft. If present, you should be able to reopen that draft and send it.

If not, I don't know. I have noticed that the Discard button is directly adjacent to the Send to Members button. A good suggestion for improvement would be to move them to opposite sides of the screen.

Why can't I see any of my moderator messages to individuals? Only via bcc's?
Generally speaking groups.io does not save any private messages.?

Good luck,
Bruce
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Vanishing email

 

I just spent an hour composing an important message to lagging members. It was sent by going to Admin > Members and checking the appropriate members, then using Send Message to create. But when I clicked on Send to Members, poof, all my work disappeared into the ether. It didn't go to anybody, and I didn't get my own bcc. What's wrong here? Do I want to spend another hour recreating my message? Why can't I see any of my moderator messages to individuals? Only via bcc's?
Re: Markdown is not rendered online #markdown

 

Hi Shal,

But if I create a new message by sending an email, the markdown is not properly rendered ( example ( /g/lfortran/message/3 ) ).

Is there a way to enable markdown to always render, no matter if the message was created online or from an email?

I don't think so, not in general. There is a hint of maybe if you use the right email client in Mark's reply to my message, beta #1299 ( ) , so many years ago. Also there was this request ( beta #6155 ( ) ). Those topics are locked now, but you could always bring it up again in beta.

There's also Markdown Here ( ) , which handles the conversion from markdown to HTML before you send the message, basically the same thing the Groups Web Poster does. I don't know if it has kept up with the changes in how Firefox/Thunderbird plugins work though.

Thanks for the reply. Just to clarify, I disabled html email in my group, as I only want plain text emails. Yes, email clients can be configured to display markdown plain text emails as rendered in html. The issue that I am raising is that I would like the groups.io web interface to also render such markdown plain text emails properly.

I will ask at beta.

Thanks, Ondrej
Re: Markdown is not rendered online #markdown

 

Ond?ej,

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But if I create a new message by sending an email, the markdown is not properly rendered (example).

Is there a way to enable markdown to always render, no matter if the message was created online or from an email?

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I don't think so, not in general. There is a hint of maybe if you use the right email client in Mark's reply to my message, , so many years ago. Also there was this request (). Those topics are locked now, but you could always bring it up again in beta.
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There's also , which handles the conversion from markdown to HTML before you send the message, basically the same thing the Groups Web Poster does. I don't know if it has kept up with the changes in how Firefox/Thunderbird plugins work though.
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Shal
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Markdown is not rendered online #markdown

 

Hi,

I am new to groups.io. When I create a new message online, the markdown is properly rendered (example). But if I create a new message by sending an email, the markdown is not properly rendered (example).

Is there a way to enable markdown to always render, no matter if the message was created online or from an email?

Thanks, Ondrej
Re: moderating Member Posts to Calendar #calendar

 

councilconsulting,


When members add events to calendar, is it subject to the same moderation settings as forum posts?

No.

The only control over member's use of the calendar is the overall calendar permission, Subscribers can view, or Subscribers can view and edit.

Shal

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Re: Subgroups #subgroups

 

councilconsulting,


I have one top level group.? I'm considering making some subgroups.? Will creation of subgroups change anything about the top level group, eg group email address, administrator email address...

It will change both the group's email addresses (listed on the home page) and web address. However the original email address and web address will continue to work for the primary group. See also:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Subgroups and
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Why-use-a-Subgroup

Shal


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moderating Member Posts to Calendar #calendar

 

When members add events to calendar, is it subject to the same moderation settings as forum posts?

(I'm a bit nervous of testing due to this morning's problem with calendar notifications that I? put in a separate post)\

Thanks
Subgroups #subgroups

 

I have one top level group.? I'm considering making some subgroups.? Will creation of subgroups change anything about the top level group, eg group email address, administrator email address... I remember something like this came up when I was first setting up a test group.

Thanks.
Delete event sends CANCELLED EVENT notification to group #calendar #cal-notice

 

I just experimented with the calendar, don't know how, but through editing an event a couple of times I ended up with duplicate events.? So I deleted 2 of the 3 duplicates (Edit, Delete). ? This caused a "Cancelled Event" notice to go to all members.? I am CERTAIN that I clicked? "update event" and NOT "update event and group"? for both entries.

A Cancelled event notice went out to the whole group for each of the 2 deletions.

(I also had a problem with the times not saving when I saved the event prior to this, that's why I kept going into the event, fixing the time and saving (update event), which seems to have caused the duplicates - 2 with the wrong times, one with the right time).

I'm now very nervous about testing the calendar as I DO NOT want calendar notifications going out at all yet.

Is this a bug? any thoughts? Tahnks
Re: Downloading A Group Wiki

 

One thing to consider is that once you do download the wiki, your downloaded version is frozen forever and doesn't contain any later changes additions or updates.? In other words it's similar to a dead language and very likely to mislead you when you most need it.
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Re: Moderator Changing Subscriber's Display Name

 

Chris,


Assuming that you did, then it is you we have to thank for getting the matter resolved as per Updates received this morning (UK time)

I did, but I've no reason to suppose that I was the only one, or even the first.

A highly satisfactory outcome. :)
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Indeed. Though my particular case (incorrect log entry) remains a bit of a mystery. Mark thinks my reported action should have made no entry at all, and I'm fairly certain that what I reported is exactly what I did. However that may be, a test last night gave the correct result in the logs, so it seems that's "case closed".

Until it isn't. In my experience little niggling discrepancies like that (between actual result and what the diagnosis says should have happened)? hint at something deeper lurking around to bite you later. But not always, so we'll see.

Shal


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Re: Downloading A Group Wiki

 

Marcio,

(Hope you don't mind me replying on-list as well as directly. I think this may be of general interest.)


So, could you do it for me, please? :)

See the .zip file in GMF's Files page.

The export did not fix up the inter-page links, which makes sense since it is intended as an archive, not to create an offline readable copy. Once you extract the files into a folder you could use a search-and-replace function in a text editor to change just the wiki URLs into local file URLs.


Is it [multi-page downloader] available for Firefox?

I really don't remember, it has been too many years since I've wanted to do that. Possibly back when I had a dial-up connection.

Shal


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Downloading A Group Wiki

 

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Bruce

In a short word, yes, theres way(s) to download a wiki page for later viewing.?

On what/how do you view them online??

And on what/how would you want to view them offline?
Re: Moderator Changing Subscriber's Display Name

 

On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 07:51 PM, Shal Farley wrote:
That's a bug I'll report to support.
Assuming that you did, then it is you we have to thank for getting the matter resolved as per Updates received this morning (UK time)

I have repeated the test I carried out a few days ago and it is now reporting correctly in both the Activity Log and? the individual member's Activity History.

A highly satisfactory outcome. :)

Chris
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