Dividing Access with a Group #howto #subgroups #split
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Andrew, 2. People who can't receive all messages, but can message and receive feedback from the entire group. ?I don't know what you mean by "can't", but it sounds like these people would benefit from Following Only? in the Advanced Preferences section of their Subscription page. Does anyone have some suggestions on how to organize my group this way? You don't need to do anything special in your group settings to have some people use Following Only. But if you know that you are about to Direct Add or Invite a bunch of people who should have that setting, you can preset it for them on the Default Sub Settings tab of ?your group's Settings page. You may or may not want to leave that default in place normally. ?You can ?change existing members to use that setting, but only one at a time through their Membership page in the group's Members list. Or you can just tell them about the feature and let them adjust their own subscriptions, but they will have to log in to the site to set the Advanced Preferences. ? ?Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Andrew Utt
Shal, Thanks for that insight on the Following Only. Our company has subscribers and then we have people who are interested in subscribing. For the people who are interested in subscribing, I don't want them to see all the subscriber messages, but if they do post, I'd like for subscribers to be able to respond. So, in the end, I want them to participate, just not have access to all of the subscriber conversations. Andrew On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:
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Andrew,
?I think the only way to have them unable to use the Messages page to read messages is to not subscribe them to the group. Then you can check
Allow Non Subscribers to Post
in the Message Policies section of your group's Settings page. This will force moderation on all of their postings, a necessary precaution to keep out spam from non-subscribers. Then you would also want to select Sender or Group and Sender in the Reply To control so that member replies go back to them. Unfortunately that will also affect members' replies to each other. I don't see a way around that. The other option, if it would be acceptable for these "type 2" subscribers to see each other's messages, would be to include them in the primary group, but not in a subgroup devoted to the type 1 subscribers. The type 1 subscribers could converse privately in the subgroup, and the type 1 subscribers could answer type 2 posts in the primary group. That would be a little like the "member" versus "board" structure I have in my PTA group, where all PTA members are members of the primary group, but only the elected board members are members of the "board" subgroup. ?Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Shal Farley
