Karin,

Can I add him directly to a subgroup without requiring an invite to
the main group being sent?

For a single person you can go to the Subgroups page in your /primary/ groups Admin pages, find or search for him in that list, then use the checkboxes to assign which subgroup(s) you want him to be in.

For multiple addresses you can use Direct Add from the /primary/ group: it will have checkboxes for what subgroup(s) to add the list of addresses to. This works fine even if one or more is already a member of the primary group - it just gives you a harmless notification that they were already a member of the Primary group.

Shal


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On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 06:33 PM, Frances wrote:

the user must login to the group in order to complete the task of choosing the right hashtags

Unless they resend it via email with a correct tag.? That would leave the original in the Draft queue, but those are deleted after 2 weeks.

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On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 06:15 PM, Bob Bellizzi wrote:

Francis, Since you "found" the lack of info on "Required Hashtags" ( the term used in the owners' manual) you might wish to drop a note on the Documentation Beta sub group about it so that the tech writers can fix that lack wherever needed.

Thanks. Done.?
I did test myself and the user must login to the group in order to complete the task of choosing the right hashtags.

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On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 06:14 PM, Margo Seegrist wrote:

I'm not sure where I should post this but all the photos being uploaded to albums are showing years in the 1960s range instead of 2020.

Margo -- I'm seeing all photos as having the taken date of 1969-12-3169, no matter when they were uploaded.

I don't know if this is a default for a photo that has no such metadata, or what. Definitely peculiar, as it's not even a valid date.

Does this bug go here, Beta, or where?

All bugs should be with a #bug hashtag.

Regards,
Bruce

The date 12/31/1969 is very suspicious to me, it is the day before the . Briefly, all UNIX machines and many others do not store dates internally as something like "12/31/69" but rather as an integer representing the number of seconds since some arbitrary point in time.? The integer is then converted on demand into whatever format the user desires. For UNIX machines, that arbitrary date is midnight UTC on 1/1/1970, which is why I think that this date is particularly interesting, as if someone fed -1 to a date integer.

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Glenn

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 06:14 PM, Margo Seegrist wrote:

I'm not sure where I should post this but all the photos being uploaded to albums are showing years in the 1960s range instead of 2020.

Margo -- I'm seeing all photos as having the taken date of 1969-12-3169, no matter when they were uploaded.

I don't know if this is a default for a photo that has no such metadata, or what. Definitely peculiar, as it's not even a valid date.

Does this bug go here, Beta, or where?

All bugs should be with a #bug hashtag.

Regards,
Bruce

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We had a case where one of our three owners had to be removed for the good of our mission and the survival of the group.
He literally went off the rails, interrogating new applicants as if they were potential foreign spies.
When we quizzed him about why, he shouted at us in 64 point type with a vocabulary I haven't heard since the iceman delivered a block to my Grandma.
He truly went nuts, continuing to? rant and rave even though we were not responding.

If we had to get his approval to delete/demote him we could not possibly have gotten it.

If you wish to cause a catastrophe, require simultaneous approval of all owners.? Otherwise, forget it because it will become an obstacle when you least need a boulder in your way.

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On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 02:27 PM, Frances wrote:

compulsory

Francis, Since you "found" the lack of info on "Required Hashtags" ( the term used in the owners' manual) you might wish to drop a note on the Documentation Beta sub group about it so that the tech writers can fix that lack wherever needed.
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Glad it was a happy accident for all. And thanks much for the thread tending!

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 03:06 PM, Frances wrote:

If there are only 3 hashtags available for the group, it should be easy to remember them and assign them to an email. Just type in the word with # like #guide. Example 2 with a topic: ?adopting older dogs #adoption

For web savvy members, no problem, agreed. But a lot of my members are not.

So I think the remedy I stumble on to works best for us. Let them title and send no hash, then pick a hash when the symptom prompt makes it brain dead easy to do ?

That is great! I have never tested or used compulsory hashtags. I don't see it in the Help either. I learned something today. Thanks.

BTW, I split off this discussion into its own thread and added a hashtag.

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On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 04:56 PM, Carla Nelson wrote:

Sorry -- Category is my term picking one of the 3 hashtags available. I limited it to 3 and forced authors of new topics to pick one so as to pre-sort the topics in clumps.

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So I should have said how do you assign a hashtag in email to the first note in a new topic??

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If there are only 3 hashtags available for the group, it should be easy to remember them and assign them to an email. Just type in the word with # like #guide. Example 2 with a topic: ?adopting older dogs #adoption

Easy online, of course, to pick from the list of hashtags after they have typed in the topic / subject.

I am not sure whether this answers your question or not.

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On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 09:56 PM, Carla Nelson wrote:

So I should have said how do you assign a hashtag in email to the first note in a new topic??

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In the subject line type: Subject #hashtag

Do not type any punctuation after the hashtag and discourage members from typing #hashtag then Subject.

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On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 02:02 PM, Alan Warshawer wrote:

On 20 December for some unknown reason, the posts requiring moderator action shifted to "Social." I don't think that it was any action I?took that caused the shift, but it happened.

I'd guess it was probably something Google did, they have a habit of changing things.? I've gone into my account and removed ALL of the categories, so everything? (except spam) just shows up in my inbox.? If I wanted to do some sorting, I'd do it in Thunderbird.

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On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 02:22 PM, Carla Nelson wrote:

Do you mean people need to either start every new topic the web or click on a prior piece of forum email mail to hop onto the web and begin a new topic online? My group requires a category for each new topic, and I was wondering how you could do that if starting from email.

You can use the footers in emails from your group to reply or to start a new thread. The exact options depends on the person's own subscription to the group.
See?/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/additional-information/understanding-message-footers?single=true
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/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/5452

Just look at the footer to this email.

And of course, you can just email as usual, with a proper subject.

You say "category". Do you mean hashtags? You can require them if you wish.?

Here's more help page on sending or replying -?/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/working-with-group-messages/using-email-to-send-or-reply-to?single=true

BTW, there is a Help for new owners as well as help for owners and members.
See?/helpcenter
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On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 07:28 PM, Carla Nelson wrote:

I set up my group to require a category

What, exactly, is a "category"?

Chris