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Re: Table of contents in a wiki #wiki

Sandi D.
 

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 11:31 AM, Frances wrote:
I am trying to create a table of contents.
This was my first time ever at creating a Wiki and I didn't find a lot of GIO info to guide me as a "newbie" in this.?
I suppose I took a cumbersome route as I attempted to figure it out.?

But for what it's worth, here is how I set up the wiki TOL in our group:
1. Created the first "major" page. Copied the URL.

2. Returned and created a TOL page (home/index). Then pasted the URL into it, linked to a text of the Major Page Title, not just left as a displayed URL.?

I decided my own font size, line spacing, and formating instead of using coding formats discussed in Shal's reply.
At some point, I ended up pasting the partially completed TOL into Pages (Mac equivalent of Word) and then I played with formating and organizing. When satisfied, I copied it back to the TOL page which preserved all my formatting. ?
I ended up using a Roman Numeral format for our TOL page and I moved the URLs around under I got the order that I liked.?

3. Repeated the process for each additional "major" page.?

4. Then I built a side bar.?

I set the TOL and Major pages editing so that only the myslef and the owner can edit it. The other linked pages can be edited by members.?

I have 8 Major topic pages and they in turn have 0 to 2 subpages. I can foresee that as more wiki pages are added, it might become difficult in the drop down menu to figure out if all the pages are linked to one of the Major Page- the ones I listed in the TOL.

It went fairly fast. Took 30-60 minutes over the course of 3-4 days to create a 20 page linked wiki.?

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How do I reply to message in Digest Mode?

 

In trying to reply to a message in Full Digest it says: Do not reply to this email. To reply to a message, click the Reply link under the message.
I'm working in Outlook and when I click either Reply to Group or Reply to Sender, it opens Windows Mail. So I tried opening the digest mail there, clicked on Reply to Group and it opened another Windows mail window. I tried this a number of times.? What am I doing wrong???D
Ruth D


Re: clickable links

 

Ronaldo,
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Assuming she used the groups.io messages editor to create that message, it must had been how she typed the link; if she didn't use the http or www prefix, the clickable link will not automatically inserted. ?
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To see what I mean, type cnn.com and press enter or space, nothing will happen, but add www.?or http:// in front of it, go to the end and press Enter or space, and the text will automatically be formatted with the link. ?
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The other way of making a link clickable is to?highlight the text link and click on the hyperlink icon on the?groups.io?message editor, she may have forgotten to do this.
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Yet another way this can happen is if she copied and pasted a well-formatted link but it was text-only, like from a text file or something, and then moved somewhere else in the message body; you have to go to the end of the pasted link and press enter or space in order for the clickable line to auto-insert. ?(in contrast copying and pasting already-formatted links from another non text-only app, liker your web browser, will create the clickable link regardless, you don't have to do anything in that case)
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Cheers,

Christos


Re: Office 365 Issues

 

Ken,

Question: Why am I only receiving this error when posting to groups.io
vie Outlook and not other sites?
Interesting question.

In a similar case Lena tracked it down to being one of the service's three outbound servers lacking DNS entries. The one in three would seem to explain a certain amount of randomness in which messages get through and which don't.
/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/61705815#24556

I suspect something similar is happening for other email addresses supported by Office 365, though the details may vary.

If you want, you can CC my email address on some future messages sent to Groups.io groups, then let me know which, if any, bounced. I don't know that both copies of a CC'd message would go out from the same server, but could verify it if you also forward the bounce message to me.

That would let me see what Gmail's analysis of the sending authentication has to say.

Shal


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Re: Office 365 Issues

 

Question: Why am I only receiving this error when posting to groups.io vie Outlook and not other sites?

?Ken

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Subject: Re: [GMF] Office 365 Issues

No, it's still happening now and then.? Until Microsoft fixes the reverse DNS problem on their servers, it will continue.

Duane

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Re: Office 365 Issues

 

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 07:51 PM, J Forster wrote:
Has the issue been resolved? If so, how?
No, it's still happening now and then.? Until Microsoft fixes the reverse DNS problem on their servers, it will continue.

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Office 365 Issues

 

I have a member who's getting "Outside Outlook" errors when trying to post to a group.
Something like this has, I believe, been discussed before.
Has the issue been resolved? If so, how?

Thanks,

-John


Re: Not getting all of my group postings

 

Edward,

There have been several postings sent from some of my members that
never made it to my inbox. I only was able to see them by visiting the
group¡¯s website.
What else have you checked?

Fortunately Groups.io provides good tools for tracking down your delivery problems.
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Not-Receiving-Messages

I wanted to see if others are experiencing the same.
I think nearly 100% reception is more typical than four out of five.

Shal


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Not getting all of my group postings

Edward Borg
 

Hi All;

There have been several postings sent from some of my members that never made it to my inbox. I only was able to see them by visiting the group¡¯s website. We have only posted 25 messages since we transferred out group, and out that I only received 20 of them in my inbox. That isn¡¯t such a good percentage of reliability.

I wanted to see if others are experiencing the same.

Sincerely;
Edward Borg


Re: Table of contents in a wiki #wiki

 

Frances,

But I can't figure out how to get rid of the numbering. Here's what my
attempt looks like:
0.0.1 Join Groups.io
I believe that indicates that you have no paragraphs marked as Header 1 or Header 2. Select the Header level in the Formats drop down. When you open that drop-down a black bar on the left marks the current format of the paragraph you're in.

You must start at Header 1 for your outermost level, else the TOC gets confused.

There aren't any numbers in these headings.
Unfortunate but true.

That fact makes it much less obvious what's going on. The only way I know to identify the current paragraph's header level is to drop the Formats menu (or guess based on font size, if you haven't changed it from the default).

And I don't see anything in source - at least not looks like it would create numbering.
<p><em>[TOC:Contents:3]</em></p>
That's just a marker for the position of the TOC. The "3" is the number of levels you selected. For shorter pages I typically use 1, sometimes 2 for longer pages. Even the Transfer details page I only used 2.

The actual rendered TOC is created "behind the scenes" (in the presentation code, I think) - it doesn't even show in the Source code view.

In the body of the page you should see text marked like this:

<h1>top level header</h1>
<p>Ordinary Paragraph</p>

The number after "h" in those HTML tags is the level number (depth) not the sequence number of that header.

Shal


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Re: Can I set questions for people requesting to join the group?

 

Thank you to everyone who replied. I've set up questions on the pending member's notice and it seems to be working well.?


Re: closing polls

 

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 03:47 PM, Barbara Jean Jasen wrote:
Now the question is how can I close a poll without deleting it?
Barbara -- See?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Polls

Bruce


Re: Max size of file to upload

 

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 03:46 PM, fernando nocedal wrote:
We uploaded one file sized at 376 MB a few weeks ago. Now trying to upload a 257MB file and the site is sending a message saying that the file is too large.
I am Premium member and have not reached even 20% of the 10GB total storage.
Fernando -- Since you didn't really tell us what the message said, it's hard to say. But I will venture to guess that you got timed out, which has been reported to happen occasionally. It seems to depend on server load and the speed of your internet connection.

Question: is there a max individual file size allowable? what is it?? Why would the system allow a 376MB file but not a 257MB file?
I'm not aware of any fixed limitation. I will say that groups.io isn't really designed for cloud storage or streaming audio/video. My suggestion is to upload the file to a Google Drive or some such and share it via a link.

Good luck,
Bruce


closing polls

 

In one of my groups we have a monthly poll where votes are hidden from members till the poll is closed.? Now the question is how can I close a poll without deleting it?

Barbara Jean


Max size of file to upload

 

We uploaded one file sized at 376 MB a few weeks ago. Now trying to upload a 257MB file and the site is sending a message saying that the file is too large.
I am Premium member and have not reached even 20% of the 10GB total storage.
Question: is there a max individual file size allowable? what is it?? Why would the system allow a 376MB file but not a 257MB file?
Thanks
Fernando


Re: Photo Descriptions & Permissions #photos

 

Maybe a separate topic for each photo?


Re: Catch-22: Can't Transfer Yahoo Group

 

Dennis Steckley wrote:
One of the yahoogroups on which I used to be able to issue invitations no longer allows me to do so for the past couple of weeks.? And another yahoo group used to allow me to appoint other moderators, but I can't now.? As of now, that means the transfers of both those groups are dead in the water due to absentee owners.? I keep trying on yahoo, figuring if it glitched one way, perhaps it will glitch back the other way.? One did the other day, allowing me to invite and change groups.io to moderator, but within five minutes it reverted back, apparently before the changes could take place.? Frustrating.

Dennis, are you using an ID that does not end in @yahoo.com to moderate? You know, Yahoo issued an email (pretty cryptic) stating that only people with yahoo.com accounts could be administrators. (It never occurred to me that this was a precursor to the shutdown.) At that time, I created a Yahoo.com account and made it a moderator, too. I continued to use my old ID for everything, actually having two email addresses associated with the same group.

Now that the shutdown is occurring, I wanted to back my group up, so I got PG Offline. It could not download the group using my old ID. I had to use the Yahoo ID. Could you be having the same issue?

BTW, the email also stated that the accounts with non-Yahoo domains that Yahoo services (ymail, rocketmail, sbcglobal, bellsouth, ameritech, att, etc.) were included in the disallowed group; they could not be administrators.

Larry






Re: Photo Descriptions & Permissions #photos

 

OK noted, and thank you for the suggested work around,
Alan


Re: Special Notices not delivered to all members who selected Special #specialnotice

 

Shal, thanks for the suggestion.? I checked with one of the members and found at that they had in fact received the most recent special notice, despite the most recent delivery not indicating that.


Re: Photo Descriptions & Permissions #photos

 

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 11:58 AM, Alan wrote:
2)
In Groups.io it seems only moderators or owners can edit or post descriptions under the photos.
As our group is made up of "Old Boys" from school days some 50 years ago, a description of who's who in an old photo is really necessary !
> Is there any way to allow ALL the members to edit / post photo descriptions? <
e.g. one person uploads a photo, can only name one person and other individual members can name others, or location or date etc. and thus collaborate to make the albums more meaningful ?
This has been on the TODO list for almost 5 years, ? Obviously not a high priority. ;>)? At present, the best work around is to name the photos carefully, then discuss them in a Topic.? It's best to NOT use a direct link to a photo because the addressing can change when any are added or deleted.? There's not (yet) a permalink to each photo.

Duane
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