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Moderating etc on iPhone
Hi
Not sure why but there are no labels for all of the functions and features on my sites (and this one) on my iPhone. I have to click on blank lines and see what appears - calendar, files, etc. To send an invitation, I had to click around until I found the right spot. Anyone else seeing this? Frances |
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Re: Is there a way to find all the posts you or others have written?
J,
Try doing a search on "By Shal Farley" and nothing will come up. MarkOh, I see. I suppose he meant that the search normally includes just the message body content, and he'll have to do some work to get it to include the Display Name (which comes from the sender's profile info, if any, rather than from the email message itself). Has that gone by the wayside in favor of using the "poster" keyword?No, I wouldn't think so. That may be why the poster keyword is undocumented. My guess is that's sort-of an "internal" thing, if anything perhaps a piece of some future "Advanced search" user interface (where it would be a fill-in box rather than a keyword). I would not describe having to know the email address as a "lesserI agree there, and I think Mark does too. He characterized it as an interim way to get the results you need today. I meant "lesser" in the sense that it is harder to find out that the poster keyword exists, and if you don't know that then knowing the member's email address is moot. Maybe "secondary" would have been better word or just "other". Shal |
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Re: how to set up or create a new group
Marvin,
First time going to create a group. Using jaws 17, and windows 10 64I don't use Jaws or any other screen reader, so I can't tell you specifically what to expect from them. That said... If you are logged in to Groups.io at the top of any Groups.io page there is a bar which contains the Groups.io logo, a drop-list with a list your groups in it, and a "Find or Create a Group" link. Click that link to bring up a page with a list of groups (those which opted to be listed). The page will have two columns. The left column has buttons for arranging the group list by "Most Popular", "Most Active", "Newest", or "By Name". Under that is a "+ Create A Group" button. Click that to bring up the "Create A Group" form. The form has two text entry boxes, two drop-list options, and a "+Create Group" buton at the bottom. Don't click that button until you've filled in the text and chosen your options). The first text box is for the "Group Email Address" (also known as the group's name). This name will also be used in the group's web address. For example, this group's name is GroupManagersForum -- you enter the name without the rest of the email address (the text @groups.io is shown adjacent to the text entry box). The second text box is for the group "Description". It is a larger box, and has formatting tools similar to the message composition tools on the Groups.io site. The first drop-list is for "Privacy". It allows you to select whether the group's messages will be available to the public, or private (for members only); and also whether your group will be listed on that list of groups page. NOTE: If you select private archives a pop-up dialog will appear that warns you that this choice cannot be reversed later - once private the group's archives cannot be made public later. The second drop list is for "Create Sub Groups". It gives you control over who is allowed to create subgroups within your group. That's an advanced topic, but reversible later, so you may wish to select "Moderators and Owners" or "Owners Only" for now. Then Click the "+ Create Group" button. Then how to add other people as co-admins or co-owners.This works similarly to Yahoo Groups. You start by inviting those people to join your group. Once they are members you can use the Members list to accesse each person in turn and change their Role to "Moderator" or "Owner". If you select "Moderator" then there will be a list of checkboxes, which allow you to grant that person specific moderator permissions. First time doing that, then how to then send a message to everyone.Again this works just like Yahoo Groups. You can send an email to the group's email address, or you can go to the group's web pages and select "New Topic". Shal |
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Re: Is there a way to find all the posts you or others have written?
J,
It of course will be more convenient (and also available to all groupWhat bug is that? Search using the "poster:" keyword works now, and is available to all group members. The big problem is that it is completely undocumented. Along with any other keywords the search box may already allow. The lesser problem is that it requires knowing the poster's email address. Shal |
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Re: Is there a way to find all the posts you or others have written?
Maria,
But also members will want to be able to search for their own posts soInteresting idea. Perhaps the Activity History tab, currently available to moderators through each subscriber's page in the Members list, could be available to the member him/herself through their Subscription page. That would give more than the history of posts, and for that reason could be useful to the member even if a proper search-by-subscriber were available. I do like that as group owners in Y! we can search by author and thatOn the To-do list. Shal |
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Re: Is there a way to find all the posts you or others have written?
J,
LOL. Of course you do realize, Shal, that your email address was coylyIndeed I knew it would be. It's part of that irony. As I've said before about the fig-leaf, it probably wouldn't take anyone very many tries to guess what's hidden. Fortunately in this case one needn't go to the effort: knowing the full email address isn't necessary to convey the "how to" instruction. I've seen stronger masking techniques, such as showing only the first two and last two characters of the email user name. With only "sh...nd@" to work with the guessing would be more difficult. The downside is that the more the site masks the more likely it is for two subscribers to end up with the same masked name. Shal |
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Re: Is there a way to find all the posts you or others have written?
Maria,
Is there an easy way to find in the archive any posts you or others haveMark mentioned a method in beta@, but it isn't documented anywhere else that I know of. /g/beta/message/7668 It turns out that the search box has tricks we don't know of, including an ability to search for specific kinds of things using keywords. So for this purpose the keyword is "poster:" followed by the person's email address. Which, somewhat ironically given recent threads in beta@, requires one to know that person's email address. So to find my messages try poster:shals2nd@... Oddly, this trick only works in the search box in Messages view (or Expanded Messages View), not Threads View. That's another one of those search idiosyncrasies I'd like to see fixed. Shal |
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Re: Is there a way to find all the posts you or others have written?
There's not a simple way that I'm aware of. If you're an owner/moderator with access to the Member list, you can go to the member name, then Activity History, and search for Accepted Message. A kluge at best, but works for now.
If you and/or the other person always sign the same way, you could search for that in Message View, but it would also show any quotes that contained it. (Search won't find them in Thread View unless it's in the title.) I think Mark has plans to add a search by poster. Duane |
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