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I've not needed to edit other people's posts in my yahoo groups though occasionally I've put people on moderation.

I was once in an academic group (!), not yahoo, where someone was very abusive to me. I saw the post before he had second thoughts or was warned by someone and edited out the abuse but the moderators had access to the whole history of his posts along with edits and were able to deal with him.

Would moderators have this facility here?

Louise

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Ro,

How do I turn off members ability to edit a previous post?

I'm assuming you mean a post made by that member, a member cannot edit other people's posts.

There isn't a general control to disable that capability.

If it is a specific message you are concerned with then one thing you can do is Close the thread that message is a part of. After a thread has been closed its messages can no longer be edited (but they can still be deleted). That's a recent bugfix.
/g/beta/message/5747

Of course, you may not want to close the thread to all new messages, and it wouldn't prevent the member from editing their other posts.

-- Shal

Hi

I believe only owners and moderators can edit posts. Not regular members.

I am a moderator of one group. Signed in, I can edit posts.
I have another login for the same group - just as a member. With that sign in, I can’t edit posts.

Frances

I don't believe there's a way to turn it off. You might suggest that as one of the items to add to the TODO list.

Duane

Duane,

I plan to do some more testing of the databases and will report in if I
find any other gotchas.

As reported in the thread on beta@, I did find that MM/DD/YYYY format does import as a date when the column Type is set to Date. But only exactly that format, with leading zeros required. That may be useful, as Excel will let you convert general dates formats to that.
/g/beta/message/5790

-- Shal

Thanks, Shal. Good to know what works and what doesn't. I plan to do some more testing of the databases and will report in if I find any other gotchas.

Duane

In beta@ Jim Poston wrote:

Sorry if I missed it: is import in the works for databases?

/g/beta/message/5784

I've decided to expand upon this topic here, as it is more of a "how to". If we come up with bug reports or feature requests those should be posted back in the thread at beta@ so Mark will see them.

One thing I noticed when moving some databases from a Y!group to its reincarnation as group@ is that the Exported CSV (probably TSV too) from the Y!Group includes a header row containing the column names. Here I'm using the trailing @ to signify a group on Groups.io, my apologies in advance to anyone who had the temerity to name their group "group".

When importing to the group@ that column heading row is matched up to the column names in the group@ table - so you need to have columns that match the names of those in the Y!group. Columns in the CSV that don't match any columns in the group@ table are discarded during import. I found it useful to open the CSV in a text editor to copy/paste the column names into the Edit Table form at group@ so that I'd get them to match exactly.

The column type in a group@ table seems to control how both the add row and the import functions treat the content for that column. But my only test so far was a column of type "Date" - which imported as gibberish when fed a CSV containing dates in the YYYY-MM-DD format.

On the other hand, importing that column as "Single Line Text", and then changing the type to "Date" after completing the import did not turn them to gibberish. But I don't think it turned them to an internal Date representation either: I think the table just shows the text that it imported despite the subsequent change of field type.

-- Shal

J,

I moved this to GMF to give Mark a break.[1]

In @beta J_catlady wrote:

Can one of you summarize the extra features in full, and tell me the
disadvantages and why someone would ?not? want it, s, so I can pass that
along?

/g/beta/message/5755


Features:

o Each item in the Topics list is a link to the start of that topic in the body.

o Each message has a link back to the Topics list.

o The links at the bottom of each message are compact and easy to read.
In the plain text digest those links take more space and look cluttered
because the URLs are shown.

o All links are "live".
With the plain text digest if your email service or software doesn't "linkify"
plain text URLs then you will need to copy/paste them to your browser.

o Some users prefer the formatted appearance of the HTML digest.

o Emoticons in the message bodies are shown as graphics.


Cons:

o The message is encoded in HTML.
Some email clients don't handle HTML well, or at all.
Some users prefer plain text.

o Each digest takes more bytes to transmit.
Costs more if using metered or otherwise limited internet service.
Requires more storage if you archive the messages for future reference.

o Font size and color choices in the individual messages are shown.
This can disrupt the appearance and/or readability of the digest.

o Emoticons in the message bodies are shown as graphics.
Some people despise this.


Anything I missed, folks?

-- Shal
1: /g/beta/message/4759
(last bullet item)

I just added a page to the Wiki for "Setting up a Database". I think I covered most of it, but please make changes if appropriate.

I'm thinking that we could do a lot of the documentation for Mark on how things work. I know that things are changing, some quite often, and that can make it difficult for less computer comfortable folks to keep up. As far as I'm concerned, Mark is more than welcome to use any of the information that I post if it will help others. If/when Shal feels that a page is pretty much set, he can lock it so that "Only moderators can edit this page" if he chooses so that there's less chance of it being messed up.

Duane

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:25 am, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:

In my test group you're a moderator with the privilege to change group settings, so if you'd like to play with subgroups feel free to change the option to "Moderators and Owners" or "Subscribers".

Shal, Thank you...I've done that! And formed a subgroup with just me in!!

Robert

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