How to tell if a post is a special notice?
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On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 01:02 PM, Pete Cook wrote:
Is there a way to tell in the archive whether a post was sent as a special notice? If the "send as special notice" checkbox is ticked during message composition, the message will display a "special" badge while in pending status, and the corresponding entry in the activity log will say "sent special notice" rather than "sent message."?
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If a hashtag is applied, there is no indication of this while in pending status, and you just have to remember which of the perhaps hundreds of hashtags have the "special" flag set. Further confusing the issue, regular members (non-Mods) cannot send a special notice even if they apply the same hashtag.
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As I look at my group exports, the data available suggest that this information might not be stored at all...the message just goes out immediately to everyone not on "no email" and that's it. But if it is, I agree it would be handy to be able to filter on it.?
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Regards,
Bruce
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On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 05:02 PM, I wrote:
If a hashtag is applied, there is no indication of this while in pending status, and you just have to remember which of the perhaps hundreds of hashtags have the "special" flag set. Well Pete, I was wrong.* In both cases (ticking the checkbox or applying a hashtag) the Special badge will appear on the pending message and the activity log entry will say "sent special notice."
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Although these log entries do contain links to the messages, as with the message base itself there's no good way to filter them. Still, better than nothing.
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Sorry,
Bruce
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*I had a #special hashtag in my test group but for some reason it didn't have the special flag set. When you assume...
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