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On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 06:33 AM, the Group Administrator wrote:

If people sign in via Facebook or Google, do these companies start tracking them? Are these companies able to see the data on Groups.io? Automatic sign in might attract new users, but what disadvantages does it have?

Upfront, I should say that I don't use alternative log ins.? I did a little reading this morning about using alternate sign ins.? In general, it's not recommended, but is quite often done for convenience.? It should be obvious that the alternate site will now know that you have an account at Groups.io, but only limited information should be exchanged in order to accomplish the login.? Since there is no tracking done on this site, there should be no way for the other services to do additional tracking.? The only information they can 'see' here would be the login procedure.? Depending on a person's settings for the alternate, there may or may not be additional information added to their visible account on that site.

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On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 07:49 AM, Beth Weld wrote:

I have a subgroup that has several databases.? In settings I have it set up so that a member can view, but not create.?

When a member clicks on the Databases tab on the left, the list of databases comes up, but they can't click on the name to view the contents. Is there something else that I need to set so that they can see the contents?

Databases have subscriber-owners, and access can be restricted at the table and row level, depending on the desires of that owner.

Open each database and click the Edit Table Properties button at the top. On the ensuing page, scroll down, make sure all the Permissions settings are the way you want them, then click the blue Update button at the bottom.
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I have a subgroup that has several databases.? In settings I have it set up so that a member can view, but not create.?

When a member clicks on the Databases tab on the left, the list of databases comes up, but they can't click on the name to view the contents. Is there something else that I need to set so that they can see the contents?
Thanks
Beth

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 10:09 PM, Maureen wrote:

Is there a way to post a slideshow such as Power Point?on Groups.io??

As Shal noted, the only thing you can do with a native PowerPoint file is upload/download it from the files area.

That said, basic PowerPoint-like behavior can be achieved by a series of linked wiki pages. I have a bunch of PowerPoint files that I hope to convert to that, someday. I did one of them, as best I could, and it's proven to be a tedious/frustrating process. It's entirely possible that "someday" may never come.

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Hello
I am going to promote the group as "private, no adverts, no data mining, no tracking or friend requests".
Most existing users hate Facebook, most potential users love it.
If people sign in via Facebook or Google, do these companies start tracking them? Are these companies able to see the data on Groups.io? Automatic sign in might attract new users, but what disadvantages does it have? My account seems to sign itself in quite happily with neither of these being signed in, so I do not really understand what this functionality is.

I am going to try to promote the group saying that Groups.io is better at planning and coordination, and has more useful features (rather than just less garbage). Does anyone have any tips or ideas for me?
Thanks
John Clube

Maureen,

Is there a way to post a slideshow such as Power Point on Groups.io?

There isn't a native slideshow viewer, one that operates within the context of Groups.io's web pages. Opening a photo in an Album and then using the left and right arrows (at the edge of the photos, not on the keyboard) to move through the album is a little bit like a manual slideshow.

That might be an interesting suggestion for beta: add slideshow controls to the viewing options for an album - allowing automatic presentation of the album's content.

You could store a PowerPoint file in the group's Files section. But as far as I know there aren't any browsers which will open that file format in-browser (unlike PDF and most image types), so the members would have to download the file and run PowerPoint (or a 3rd-party viewer) to view it.

Shal


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Hi, I have done a search here, but I have had no luck finding an answer to this one so here goes.? Is there a way to post a slideshow such as Power Point?on Groups.io??
Thanks,
Maureen

debihansen,

I have all the email owner notifications checked. The only restriction
I have is approval of the first message - but that is the only email
notification I am not getting.

One possibility is that they're going to your Spam/Junk folder.

You're looking for a message like this:

Subject: Message Approval Needed - [email] posted to [yourgroup]
From: [yourgroup] Notification <[email protected]>

where [email] is the posting member's email address and [yourgroup] is your group's message posting address.

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On 2/3/2019 12:05, Shal Farley wrote:

Glenn,

1) it doesn't seem possible to edit the group description after the
group is created

I don't know why you think that. Unless you neglected to click the blue "Update Group" button at the bottom of the Settings page.

Ah. Because I only looked on the page with the description itself. It didn't occur to me that it was a "setting".

... one thing that most of them have is ... and also a text editor
where one enters the markup (in the case of groups.io, HTML) directly
and that might be a general purpose solution to various
sorts of editing issues.

See the "Source Code" button on the (advanced) toolbar of the edit box.

Perfect! Thanks.

Best,

Glenn

Thank you so very much, just wanted to make sure as someone told me that.

Thanks again.

Glenn,

1) it doesn't seem possible to edit the group description after the
group is created

I don't know why you think that. Unless you neglected to click the blue "Update Group" button at the bottom of the Settings page.

... one thing that most of them have is ... and also a text editor
where one enters the markup (in the case of groups.io, HTML) directly
and that might be a general purpose solution to various
sorts of editing issues.

See the "Source Code" button on the (advanced) toolbar of the edit box.

Shal


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On 2/2/2019 12:39, Shal Farley wrote:

But found that when I tried to indent the middle line by selection, it
indented the following line and if I dedented the third line, it
dedented the second line.

Try using Shift+Enter to break the lines.

I haven't tested the Home page Description editor recently, but in a message body (New Topic or Reply) Enter inserts a line break, <br />, into the formatted text, whereas Shift+Enter inserts a paragraph break, <p> (and the corresponding end paragraph </p> somewhere later). Indent formatting operates on a paragraph basis.

Note: the Wiki page editor is the other way around: Enter is a paragraph break, Shift+Enter is a line break. The home page Description editor probably ought to work like the Wiki, but I've not tried it in ages.

When dealing with indents I find I usually need to experiment with Enter and Shift+Enter a bit to get what I want. Or else resort to the Source Code mode and subdue the HTML by hand.

Shal

Hi, Shal.

I got a chance this rainy morning to play with it a bit and discovered two things:

1) it doesn't seem possible to edit the group description after the group is created
2) in order to get what I wanted done, one needs to:

* type the line to be indented
* indent it
* hit shift-enter
* type the next line
* dedent it

In particular, the shift-enter doesn't automatically take one out of the indent.

I happen to edit on several MediaWiki style wikis and one thing that most of them have is a visual editor (like the description box) and also a text editor where one enters the markup (in the case of groups.io, HTML) directly and that might be a general purpose solution to various sorts of editing issues.? One can start with the visual editor, get most of it right and do a small fix or two in the plain text editor.

Best,

Glenn

There is no password for the group, only for each member's account.? If that person is till a member of the group, you can delete their account.? You could also Ban that email address if you choose to.

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If you're sure you have the first notification checked, "Email when there are messages needing approval.", on your subscription, then you will need to contact support to see what's going on.

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Hi, New owner here. I have searched for an answer to not avail. I have all the email owner notifications checked. The only restriction I have is approval of the first message - but that is the only email notification I am not getting. I get new members and replies to messages, but not the one I want to get so I can readily approve it. Is there a solution?

FYI, last September, Mark has helped me import messages (in mbox format), which were exported from a groups.io group, to a new subgroup. I guess the same could be done for messages exported from a Yahoo group.

Lily