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Re: Backing up my groups

 

Go to Admin->Settings and click the "download archives" button. However, this will only give you all the messages. I know of no way to do the same thing with files, folders and the rest...but I suspect it's been suggested in the beta group.

Bruce
Re: picture of cat instead of group home page?

J_Catlady
 

That¡¯s nit necessary. Just do a reload.


[mod note: That's Ctrl+R or F5 in most browsers, or Ctrl+F5 for a complete refresh]

On Feb 25, 2018, at 12:58 PM, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:

Flush your browser cache.

Bruce
Re: picture of cat instead of group home page?

 

Flush your browser cache.

Bruce
Re: Member only sees a basic GIO home page

 

David,

I have a listed member of my group who can not sign in or get past a
basic GIO home page. He has no "your groups" in top header and his
name is not in the upper right.
Tell him to click on the Log In link in the upper right.

From there the easiest path forward is to click the "Email me a link to log in" button. No password required this way. He'll enter his email address on the web form. That must be the address you see in your group's Members list, so perhaps tell him that address, just in case he has more than one email address.

Groups.io will send to that address an email message with a link in it. When he clicks on that link he'll be brought to the site and logged in.

From there he can read, post, add a profile, whatever he needs or wants to do.

Shal


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Re: Backing up my groups

 

First off, the only people on this group are others users, like you.

It's easy to backup messages and users.? Those are on the Settings page (Download Archives) and Members page (Download).? As far as I know, the other things have to downloaded manually.

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Member only sees a basic GIO home page

 

Hello,

I have a listed member of my group who can not sign in or get past a basic GIO home page. He has no "your groups" in top header and his name is not in the upper right.

Any thoughts, I'm very new at this but excited about the way forward.

David
Re: Questionnaire at what subscription step?

 

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Oh, Janet, fine, thank you. I?ve found that.

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Yes, my group is restricted, but the archives weren?t set private. So everyone joining could already see all the messages without being subscribed orderly.

I didn?t quite get that archives actually means older messagesJ.

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So thanks and a very ice day for you

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Victoria
Re: Questionnaire at what subscription step?

 

hi i also require people to fill in a questionairre and ive been sending it how myself when people request to join as i cant see a way to add an attachment to the notice is there a way to do this or would i have to type it out in full on notice
jackiep

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 6:27 PM, J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> wrote:
Victoria,
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Is your group set to "Restricted Membership"? That's the first step. Otherwise, anyone can join and membership doesn't require approval.
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Assuming that's set correctly, then go into Settings -- > Member Notices --> create new notice and select "Pending Subscription" from the dropdown menu. Create the message that you want to be automatically sent when someone requests membership. You would include your questionnaire there.

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Re: Transfer Group from Yahoo

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The ¡°No Email¡± delivery is a hazard most Yahoo Groups has when it comes to contacting the entire list membership. No Email means just that. The person who chooses no ¡°No Email¡± wants only one way contact with the List. A move like the one from Yahoo Groups to Groups.io creates a vacuum that cannot be avoided when it comes to informing the Yahoo List subscribers of the of the transfer to Groups.io.
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I am one of two co-owners of a Yahoo Group that has existed for almost 20 years. The subscriber list is over 12,000. Of that list about 58%, from a membership sampling of 1000 subscribers, have chosen the ¡°No Email¡± delivery method. We cannot contact that 58% membership directly.
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I am one of those leading this 12,000 member list in the move to Groups.io. We, the co-owners, have elected to eliminate from the new list at groups.io the ¡°No Email¡± mail delivery option.
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Here is what I expect to happen when the transfer finally takes place.
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1) All of the members who have dead email address (Bouncing) will not be transferred thus lowering the number of members at the new location. How many the dead email list members there are is unknown. I can say from a sampling of the bouncing members that the number is greater than 1000.
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2) All of the ¡°No Email¡± subscribers who did not have a bouncing/dead email address will be converted to ¡°Special Notice¡± status. This will allow us to at least contact those members in the future who we could not contact on the Yahoo Group list in the past.
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3) I have been told, and I have not yet been able to confirm this but during the transfer all those members who do not already have a Groups.io account will be sent a notice on how to join Groups.io. Those members who already have a Groups.io account will not receive this how to join groups.io email.
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4) If the above item #3 takes place then I expect to see some of those that were converted from ¡°No Email¡± to ¡°Special Notice¡± bouncing.
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5) If the above item #3 does not take place then I expect to see some of those ¡°Special Notice¡± subscribers bouncing after I send a ¡°Special Notice¡± to the entire membership announcing that the transfer from Yahoo Groups to Groups.io is complete and that the Yahoo Group activity has been terminated.
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I did transfer one of my smaller lists, starting subscribers was 227. I did see the elimination of the bouncing email subscribers. I did see the conversion of ¡°No Email¡± to ¡°Special Notice¡±. I also saw about a 20% of the membership bouncing and almost all of them had previously been subscribers having the ¡°No Email¡± deliver status.
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How the subscriber list will look after the transfer takes place and how many bouncing emails the list will receive will be interesting to say the least.
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In the end the I hope to have a more defined and dedicated group of subscribers.
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Al
Re: Simple question - is possible to print the Database Tables?

 

i did same with me yahoo group and like you tried export and was too small so i saved the page as a web page through tools in browser i use chrome but presume can do same with other browsers
jackiep

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 7:18 PM, Jan Winspear <jan@...> wrote:

I was wondering if it is possible to print the Database Tables as we could on

the other lot!!!? I checked around and couldn¡¯t see how so copied and pasted my list ¨C I print them out after sign ups to work out the partners ¨C the export is no good as it is too small.

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Thanks for any help

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Best Wishes

Jan

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Re: Bug in Groups.io?

 

think maybe was just a blip cos got in ok today, whereas yesterday couldnt get in even when typed addy in like you
jackiep

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On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 2:25 PM, Barb M <barbm68@...> wrote:
I had the same experience last night and, based on the AVG comment about "unable to verify the identity of the site" figured it was a certificate issue or something similar and? (either bravely or stupidly) entered * as an exception in AVG and had no trouble since then.? (Which I suppose means if I am wrong, I'm spreading disease....)




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Simple question - is possible to print the Database Tables?

Jan Winspear
 

I was wondering if it is possible to print the Database Tables as we could on

the other lot!!!? I checked around and couldn¡¯t see how so copied and pasted my list ¨C I print them out after sign ups to work out the partners ¨C the export is no good as it is too small.

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Thanks for any help

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Best Wishes

Jan

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Re: Dumb Question of day -- How do I direct people to join my new group?

J_Catlady
 

1. You can send anyone an invitation using the invite function?
OR
2. You can send someone a link to your home page, where they can join (or apply for membership, if your group is restricted) - that address is
/g/group-name
OR
3. You can direct-add the person, using the Direct Add function, if your group is premium, as Bruce notes.
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Re: Length of Group description in Groups Directory #suggestion

 

Marina, I'm not sure it's a "problem".? I think this is simply how Mark has coded a search result to display (ie, "display first 120 characters in search results from group description").? When I use the Search function, and search using any old key word, all the search results display exactly the same as you've described:? About 1 1/2 lines are displayed from each group's main page description.? In fact, they are all truncated or cut off at the same number of characters.? So, I think is is just "how it is".? I don't think this is an issue, frankly.? If someone is interested in finding out more, and reading the full list's description, they would just click on that search result.? And, you're correct about the bolded word or words:? That word or words are bolded because they represent your search word(s).? However, I think what WOULD be helpful in the Search results would to add three periods at the end of the truncation, to indicate "there's more of a description", or that the description is, indeed, truncated.? Easy coding string to add, so maybe something to suggest on the Beta forum??
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Re: picture of cat instead of group home page?

J_Catlady
 

Click the "reload" button.

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Jonathan Sivier <jsivier@...> wrote:
? ?Is anyone else seeing a picture of a cat instead of their group web site?? The Home page of one of my groups shows a picture of a kitten.? I can get to the conversations and thus to the control menu by using the direct link under Your Groups, but I can't access the Home page.? It seems to be only one of my groups.? The message on the page says,

We're currently undergoing maintenance. We will be back up by 1AM Pacific Time (9AM UTC). In the mean time, here is a picture of Feynman, one of the Groups.io kittens (2 of 4)

? ?It has been this way since at least yesterday evening, ~18 hours.

Jonathan
Re: Dumb Question of day -- How do I direct people to join my new group?

 

You have to pay for Premium if you want to directly add members without having them accept an invitation.

Bruce
Re: Questionnaire at what subscription step?

J_Catlady
 

Victoria,

Is your group set to "Restricted Membership"? That's the first step. Otherwise, anyone can join and membership doesn't require approval.

Assuming that's set correctly, then go into Settings -- > Member Notices --> create new notice and select "Pending Subscription" from the dropdown menu. Create the message that you want to be automatically sent when someone requests membership. You would include your questionnaire there.


On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 7:27 AM, Victoria <dr.vcaesar@...> wrote:

Janet,

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my problem is that I do not know what you mean by ¡°pending subscription notice¡±. I do not get such a message. Instead I get a message that a member has joined already, even though I didn?t actually allow him to subscribe.

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So when is the time to send the questionnaire?

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Sorry if my questions sound stupid¡­

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Victoria

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Backing up my groups

 

I worked in IT for many years and always believed in the "belt and braces" approach to backup. I'm sure you guys keep backups, but against the horrid possibility that something dire goes wrong, I'd like to be able to take my own backup of the groups that I own (all messages, attachments, files, photos etc. etc.).

So what mechanisms are available to allow this?

Thanks
David
picture of cat instead of group home page?

 

Is anyone else seeing a picture of a cat instead of their group web site? The Home page of one of my groups shows a picture of a kitten. I can get to the conversations and thus to the control menu by using the direct link under Your Groups, but I can't access the Home page. It seems to be only one of my groups. The message on the page says,

We're currently undergoing maintenance. We will be back up by 1AM Pacific Time (9AM UTC). In the mean time, here is a picture of Feynman, one of the Groups.io kittens (2 of 4)

It has been this way since at least yesterday evening, ~18 hours.

Jonathan
Re: Editing the homepage of a Group

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Hey Jerry
I've been wondering that also.? Could you tell me where you found it?? I know how to change the picture on the home page
but that's basically all.?

Thanks Jerry

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