On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 07:01 PM, Gerald Boutin wrote:

You are almost there, but you still have one more step needed.

On the page with the larger view of the picture, do a Right-Click on top of the picture and then select "Save Image As" (Chrome) or "Save picture as" (MS Edge)

Other browsers may behave differently.

If you have a Mac and use the Photos application, on the page with the larger view of the picture, right-click on the picture and choose Add image to Photos. It will be in Imports in Photos on your computer.

Frances
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When you see that larger picture, right click and select save image as and select where you want to save it when the Save As screen opens.?
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O-M-G, is that ever clumsy.....but it WORKS!? Many thanks to you Gerald, you're a Prince.

Chuck

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 07:52 PM, Epicatt2 wrote:

Now although I have a nice photo to place I cannot figure out how to get the new page with that photo to display on the messages page, much less at the top of the column of posts. There don't seem to be any obvious controls –none that I can find anyway– which will let me place my new Wiki page at the top there.

Paul -- You have to make the wiki page "sticky," as explained in message #26820. When you do, you'll find that it lies on a grey background. If you want to hide the periods, I've found that using a custom color of RGB = 218:218:218 for the text works adequately.

Bruce

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 07:52 PM, Epicatt2 wrote:

Well Bruce, I fiddled around with Wiki for a while and eventually managed to create a suitable page with our masthead photo on it. Thanks for alerting me to the need for [bracketing] text so that the photo would display. I used two periods [ . ]. It would be nice to be able to set that text to 'white' so thosr periods do not show but there is no control to set the text color that I can find.

Now although I have a nice photo to place I cannot figure out how to get the new page with that photo to display on the messages page, much less at the top of the column of posts. There don't seem to be any obvious controls –none that I can find anyway– which will let me place my new Wiki page at the top there. I'm now at a loss for how to proceed.

BTW, our group is set for 'text only'. Will that be a problem? Maybe that's a stumble.

I will only comment on the question about font colour. In my settings, I can use the "hamburger" menu to open the second line of tools in the wiki (and in messages, as well). It offers font colours. However, I have found that I don't have a full set of tools when I use my iPhone. No choice of font or size. I do on my MacBook.

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On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 12:37 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:

The wiki editor and the online message editor are very similar. Fiddle around
with it and I'm sure you'll figure it out.

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Well Bruce, I fiddled around with Wiki for a while and eventually managed to create a suitable page with our masthead photo on it. Thanks for alerting me to the need for [bracketing] text so that the photo would display. I used two periods [ . ]. It would be nice to be able to set that text to 'white' so thosr periods do not show but there is no control to set the text color that I can find.

Now although I have a nice photo to place I cannot figure out how to get the new page with that photo to display on the messages page, much less at the top of the column of posts. There don't seem to be any obvious controls –none that I can find anyway– which will let me place my new Wiki page at the top there. I'm now at a loss for how to proceed.

BTW, our group is set for 'text only'. Will that be a problem? Maybe that's a stumble.

Paul M.
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Comments? Suggestions? (Pretty please . . . .)

Paul M.
CostaRicaLiving
https: //groups.io/g/CostaRicaLiving
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 08:41 AM, Bruce Bowman wrote:

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:34 AM, Bonnie Hunter wrote:

The intro letter that people get states that they can post in the "canned" info that is sent to them, with my additional added text below stating it is announcement only, and I've made it so only moderators can post (only me) but they still think they can because of the canned text at the top of the welcome message.

Bonnie -- Are you talking about the Invite, or the Welcome notice?

An invitation has canned wording as you noted, and does contain an email address, but does not actually instruct anyone to post there.

The default Welcome notice can be overridden by creating a custom one from scratch and making it Active.

See also?/static/help#membernotices

Hope this helps,
Bruce

I recently ran into a related problem when I created an announcements-only subgroup and populated it by Direct Add. I had customized the Welcome notice to make it clear that only a Moderator/Owner could post, and the group address was included in the notice only to encourage the members to add it to their Contacts/Address Book, to identify it as a "safe sender." What I hadn't counted on is that, due to using Direct Add, the Welcome message was followed immediately by a cheerful "canned" message from The Groups.io Team:

"Hello Robert ...
You have been added by the moderators to their Groups.io group SUBGROUPNAME

The address to send an email to the groups (sic) is [email protected]"

This reopens the can of worms referred to in the subject line of this topic. In spite of any previous disclaimers, some will click on the email link and then wonder why their message is rejected. This problem seems to be on the cusp between a bug to be reported and a feature enhancement to be requested. I'm leaning towards presenting it to the beta group as a request for an enhancement, but I'm bringing it up here in GMF first to solicit suggestions on how to reword the Direct Add message for an Announcement Group, perhaps to substitute the group-owner's address for the group's address. I assume that the programming for generating a "You have been added ..." message can be modified to set a flag for an Announcement Group and send an alternate message.

Robert

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 02:40 PM, Charles Roberts wrote:

3-Scroll to the Album of your interest and Left-click on it.

4-Scroll to the individual Photo of your interest and Left-click on it.

5-Scroll to the bottom of the screen and Left-click on the DOWNLOAD button.

At this point, the screen expands the picture to a larger view and offers no downloading option....

Chick,

You are almost there, but you still have one more step needed.

On the page with the larger view of the picture, do a Right-Click on top of the picture and then select "Save Image As" (Chrome) or "Save picture as" (MS Edge)

Other browsers may behave differently.




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On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 05:43 PM, Alois Treindl wrote:

It now seems impossible for a non-mod user to att a hashtag to a posting. I created a non-mod membership and had the impression this was the case. Please confoirm.

This will keep people from creating new hashtags. It will not keep them from misusing the system hashtags mentioned earlier (#chat, #poll, #cal-invite, etc), after such a feature re-generates one.?

The only way to completely eliminate all hashtags is to use the setting you described and also disable all such system features, including the calendar, polls, chats and some of the integrations. See?/g/GroupManagersForum/message/18538?for a [probably incomplete] list.

Regards,
Bruce

I have this preference setting (see attached)

And I have deleted all hashtags which I could see as defined.
It now seems impossible for a non-mod user to att a hashtag to a posting. I created a non-mod membership and had the impression this was the case. Please confoirm.

It is much easier to use the "Save Link As ..." function to save the member list. On Firefox you right-mouse click on the Download button and select the "Save Link As .." option. Other browsers may work slightly differently, but I would suspect they all have this ability. This directly saves the CSV format file without having to display and then save the page. It eliminates a step or two and is much cleaner and easier way to do this. I like to download a backup member list each month and it only takes a few moments to do all my lists.

Jonathan

If there are others having this issue, this is what I did (I'm using a really old version of Firefox 48.0.2 with an iMac):

1.? Go to Members section on left panel.
2.? On the blue button on top, toggle to choose Members.
3.? Click Download.? A new screen appears with a list of the members in a not-so-friendly format.
4.? Right click on that page and choose Save Page As... and click save.
5.? This saves as a .CSV file and you can open it directly and it'll open via Excel and the columns are already separated out.
6.? You can save it as .xlsx after opening.

I hope this helped.

I have saved this for the future!
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Fastmail-issues

New small section in the wiki -?

Table of contents -?

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On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 12:41 PM, txercoupemuseum.org wrote:

Would you be so kind as to share details of how you achieved a CSV format file?

What's displayed on the screen is actually the csv information, so it just needs to be saved as text.? Once the information is on the screen, I right-click, select Save Page As..., make sure the Type selected is Text Document, and save it with the CSV extension.

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If I read posts on line, I'd have just hit "like" -- what's wrong with giving people the choice between just agreeing with an opinion (and less clutter) or contributing to it (because they actually have a new idea)?

Sandy

Martin,

I imagine the support group also mentioned to you some recovery codes you can generate and print (or whatever method you wish to save) to recover your account just in case of a situation like this.? I use lastpass password manager and save the codes in the note section.? I highly suggest you use Lastpass and secure that with a Yubikey from Yubico.? I am not associated with that company at all.

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Would you be so kind as to share details of how you achieved a CSV format file?

As part of their ongoing plan to chase everyone away, it appears that Yahoo has eliminated the automatic email feature along with the ability to moderate posts.

And nope, you can't set individual members to moderated--posting moderation has gone away also. After all, that would require them to save the posts until sent out. Your only current posting options now are Individual Emails or NoMail. When they say "no user-created content," they mean none at all, period. Not shutting down, just not providing services anymore...

Trying to write instructions for a Member as to how to save a picture from the Group's PHOTOS section......

To “Save pictures FROM the Group TO your computer.

1-Go to the Group Home page.

/g/SparrevohnSurvivors

2-Click on Photos on the Group Menu…(on computers it’s down the left side of the screen, on phones you have to manipulate the selections at the bottom of the screen).

3-Scroll to the Album of your interest and Left-click on it.

4-Scroll to the individual Photo of your interest and Left-click on it.

5-Scroll to the bottom of the screen and Left-click on the DOWNLOAD button.

At this point, the screen expands the picture to a larger view and offers no downloading option........works or don't work this way in three groups, (one paid and two free), and in one actually switches to different picture......is something wrong or am I doing it wrong?

Tks,
Chuck

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 12:36 PM, Epicatt2 wrote:

I haven't used Wiki pages yet and so am not fully clear how it all works.

The wiki editor and the online message editor are very similar. Fiddle around with it and I'm sure you'll figure it out.

Bruce