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Re: Missing Message
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 01:56 PM, Ginger Iorizzo wrote:
Is it in your Trash folder? Maybe you deleted it by accident.? Open your own member record and check your Email Delivery History (button at the top of the page). Tell us what it says. Do you have any filters set up for incoming messages? Something in her post may have triggered a filter. And sometimes emails just disappear. Aggressive spam filters may delete a message entirely without placing it in your Junk mail folder at all. Mail can get lost due to a server hardware crash. If header information doesn't get updated properly, two different messages could arrive with the same msg-id, leading to the second being discarded as a dupe. And on and on.? Depending on your mail provider, this can actually occur pretty frequently.?The only way to be absolutely sure to receive every group message is to read them online. Hope this helps, Bruce Check out the groups.io Help Center?and?groups.io Owners Manual |
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Re: Delete members
The instructions for deleting or removing members is here:
/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/managing-members/removing-members You must be an owner (or a moderator with the correct privileges). You can do it as owner. Frances -- GMF wiki for help.?Search box at the top of each page. Check out the?new groups.io Help Center??Use your browser to search or download?the PDF. |
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Time Zone Issue for Events
Hi all,
I see there have been issues with Feed View time zones in the past and the latest reference I can find to this on the GMF was a couple of months ago. But our event times are still showing as incorrect timezone in the Feed view, I've checked to make sure that individual accounts and calendar entries have correct time zones - should I be seeing the times line up or has there been another issue recently? Attaching a screengrab - the events showing as 7am are actually all at 3pm, and the 10am event is actually at 6pm, so 8 hours earlier. Any advice appreciated. Cheers, Christine Cheers, Christine. |
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Empty Daily Summary Emails
Hi all,
A few members of my group have complained (so I've tested it myself) that their daily summary email notifications contain no messages, even though there have clearly been messaged posted for topics that aren't muted. Wondering if I've set something up wrong. Also, if no messages have been posted for unmuted hashtags, does the daily summary still arrive with nothing in it. Attaching a sample screengrab. Any advice appreciated. Cheers, Christine. |
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 08:11 AM, Laurence Marks wrote:
It even works for free groups without API access.Actually, even free/Basic groups have API access, Duane -- The official Groups.io user documentation is in the Groups.io Help Center. GMF's Unofficial Help Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki |
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Re: free group question
Judith,
Our group looked across many of the storage sites on the web.? Some had too many pop-up-ads, others required a user login, and then others had very limited space for the FREE use.? Then there were others with the footnote of deleting anything not accessed in XX days.? Some sites even mentioned your images and documents were no longer fully private and the info could be used by their 3rd parties. After all was researched out, BOX Storage with the ease of use, not needing to login, ample of FREE account space, ability to have sub-folders to organize, share files or folders via permissions (also allows not to share should you need private or items in DRAFT editing state), no time limits on access, etc.? won out in the process. IF your group is a newer BASIC plan, I would suggest making a message post SPECIAL out to the group with the links and details.? Then PINNING this message to the top of the message TOPICS list here on the site.? It's sort of like having the WIKI with the links, but as a pinned message at the top.? Serves the same effect really. :) IF you have an older BASIC plan, then a WIKI page with links and descriptions can be created.? Hope this helps you and others. BMaverick Yanmar Tractor Owners Group |
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:41 AM, I wrote:
Unfortunately, groups.io does not parse the From: line of a +subscribe email for a Display Name. If present, it will glean one from the confirmation email.Well Larry, watch me backtrack. For testing, I was removing and re-adding a subscription to my test group for an account that already had a profile. In such a case, the Display Name in the profile is repeatedly applied to all new subscriptions and is never gleaned from a message header.?When I actually deleted that account entirely and then used the formmail to send a +subscribe request, the Display Name was populated as intended. ? New code appended below for those who wish to do this. Those who only wish to get the email address can do so by removing the text highlighted in red. Again, if the associated account already has a groups.io profile, that profile Display Name will not be overwritten, even if it's blank. Regards, Bruce <div>
<?php
//if "email" variable is filled out, send email
if (isset($_REQUEST['email']))? {
? ??
? ? if (isset($_REQUEST['name']))? {
? ? ? ? $email = "From: " . $_REQUEST['name'] . " <" . $_REQUEST['email'] . ">";
? ? } else {
? ? ? ? $email = "From: " . $_REQUEST['email'];
? ? }
? ??
? ? mail("GROUPNAME[email protected]", "Subscribe", "Subscribe", $email);
? ? echo '<span style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;"><p><br /><br />Your email address has been submitted.<br /><br /></p><h2>YOU ARE NOT DONE YET!</h2><p><br />Check for a confirmation email from groups.io and reply to it.</p></span>';?
}? else? {
//if "email" variable is not filled out, display the form
?>
?
<div class="classictemplate template" style="display: block;">
<style type="text/css">
? #groupsio_embed_signup input {border:1px solid #999; -webkit-appearance:none;}
? #groupsio_embed_signup label {display:block; font-size:16px; padding-bottom:10px; font-weight:bold;}
? #groupsio_embed_signup .email {display:block; padding:8px 0; margin:0 4% 10px 0; text-indent:5px; width:58%; min-width:130px;}
? #groupsio_embed_signup {
? ? background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;?
? }
? #groupsio_embed_signup .button {
?
? ? ? width:25%; margin:0 0 10px 0; min-width:90px;
? ? ? background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom,#337ab7 0,#265a88 100%);
? ? ? background-repeat: repeat-x;
? ? ? border-color: #245580;
? ? ? text-shadow: 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.2);
? ? ? box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.15),0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.075);
? ? ? padding: 5px 10px;
? ? ? font-size: 12px;
? ? ? line-height: 1.5;
? ? ? border-radius: 3px;
? ? ? color: #fff;
? ? ? background-color: #337ab7;
? ? ? display: inline-block;
? ? ? margin-bottom: 0;
? ? ? font-weight: 400;
? ? ? text-align: center;
? ? ? white-space: nowrap;
? ? ? vertical-align: middle;
? ? }
</style>
<div id="groupsio_embed_signup">
<form onkeypress="return event.keyCode != 13;" method="post">
? ? <div id="groupsio_embed_signup_scroll">
? ? ? <label for="email" id="templateformtitle">Subscribe to our group</label>
? ? ? <input type="email" value="" name="email" id="email" placeholder="email address" required="">
? ? ? <div> </div>??
? ? ? <input name="name" id="name" placeholder="full name">
? ? ? <div> </div>
? ? <input type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="subscribe" id="groupsio-embedded-subscribe" class="button">
? </div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
?
<?php
? }
?>
?
</div>
Check out the groups.io Help Center?and?groups.io Owners Manual |
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:11 AM, Laurence Marks wrote:
Bruce, that's very impressive. It even works for free groups without API access. I may borrow it when our group's website moves to a new platform where PHP is supported.Thanks Larry. I have uploaded it to the GMF Files area as an example. It could be cleaned up a little, as the form definition still contains some fields and attributes that aren't really necessary to create an outgoing email. A full implementation would also benefit from the addition of Just one thought. How about soliciting the user's name or screen-name as well and forming the sender email address in the long form,Unfortunately, groups.io does not parse the From: line of a +subscribe email for a Display Name. If present, it will glean one from the confirmation email. Regards, Bruce Check out the groups.io Help Center?and?groups.io Owners Manual |
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
Christos wrote "Maybe not all is lost, it could be even simpler than the PHP script by using just HTML; add a form with an email text box and a button, and have the button invoke a regular HTML mailto: link with the textbox's email as the from, and the rest (to group+subscribe, some or blank subject) hardcoded." This works, but opens the user's Mail User Agent and doesn't directly send the message. You would have to introduce it with a message like "Click [link/button] to send an email to join the group" so the user isn't startled. (Otherwise, nervous users could suspect they had been hacked.) Here's a sample complete HTML that does this:? <a mailto:groups.io/g/mygroup+subscribe&subject=Please subscribe me to mygroup&body=Please subscribe me to mygroup. Thanks!>Send an email to subscribe.</a> This displays a message "Send an email to subscribe." and initiates an email. The email contains some content that will be ignored, but provides a certain comfort level to people unfamiliar with computers. Larry |
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
Bruce, that's very impressive. It even works for free groups without API access. I may borrow it when our group's website moves to a new platform where PHP is supported.
Just one thought. How about soliciting the user's name or screen-name as well and forming the sender email address in the long form, User Name <username@...> so the directory and user's post provide better identification? Larry |
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
Maybe not all is lost, it could be even simpler than the PHP script by using just HTML; add a form with an email text box and a button, and have the button invoke a regular HTML mailto: link with the textbox's email as the from, and the rest (to group+subscribe, some or blank subject) hardcoded.
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On 2020-11-25 17:28, Loneliness Lab via groups.io wrote:
So it transpires?Squarespace doesn't supports PHP which is a real shame as that seemed like the perfect solutions for our needs |
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Re: Navigation buttons missing
#directory
Bruce - You're amazing! My navigation buttons at the bottom of the screen are back! All I did was switch from infinite scroll to 100 per page, which is fascinating considering the infinite scroll page used to result in four pages (not one really long page as one would expect)...and now it's down to two pages :)
(And I was mistaken before...when it was stuck on the first page, it was member names A-F, not A-C.) Thank you!! Jean |
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Re: Navigation buttons missing
#directory
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:34 PM, Jean Guevara wrote:
This is definitely new. We all had no problem before going from one page of our directory to the next, but now some of us cant get past the first page. Up top it says "showing 199 of 199 members," but it's not...it's only showing those with names beginning with letters A-C...with no buttons at the bottom to move to the next page.Jean -- Something definitely funny going on. I don't see a problem with the navigation when set to 100 items per page. I highly recommend that you turn off infinite scroll in your account preferences ( /account?page=prefs ). Seems like every time a problem like this arises, infinite scroll is to blame. If you ask me, that feature is just not ready for prime time. For myself, the Directory page is no longer displaying the blue menu bar at the top of the page. Regards, Bruce Check out the groups.io Help Center?and?groups.io Owners Manual |
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Re: Navigation buttons missing
#directory
This is definitely new. We all had no problem before going from one page of our directory to the next, but now some of us cant get past the first page. Up top it says "showing 199 of 199 members," but it's not...it's only showing those with names beginning with letters A-C...with no buttons at the bottom to move to the next page. I just looked at the GMF directory page, and it's the same for me there...no navigation buttons at the bottom to go to the next page. I took a screen shot of the bottom of the GMF directory page...if it comes across okay...
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Christine
Judith Freed
Duane
BMaverick
Laurence Marks
Christos Psarras
Jean Guevara