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Hi, new to groups.io, need assistance please


 

I have been reading the updates since they began and saw you can send invites. anyone know how?

I tried putting something on a calendar page, then it was sent to members.

What showed up was a button, outlined in grey, within it was a blue outlined page, with one corner turned down.
Below this was the link? invite.ics

As the owner of the group I tried in my personal email to open it, and it would not.

Here, in this message i clicked on it and it gave me a OPEN LINK , but again, nothing happened.

Please, help if you can, I want to move my yahoo group here, but first need to learn more.

Cara Febe Giaquinto
SOTHUSAgroups.io


 

Cara,

I have been reading the updates since they began and saw you can send
invites. anyone know how?

I tried putting something on a calendar page, then it was sent to
members.
If you are inviting people to an event then that should be all you need to do. When editing the event, in the Notifications section at the bottom, checking "Send Invite To Group" causes a message to be posted in your group immediately when you click the Add Event button.

What showed up was a button, outlined in grey, within it was a blue
outlined page, with one corner turned down.
Below this was the link invite.ics
Correct. That ICS file is a standard format, members with a compatible personal calendar should be able to import that file to add your event to their calendar.

As the owner of the group I tried in my personal email to open it, and
it would not.
Interesting. Do you have a personal calendar as part of your AOL subscription? If not that could be the problem. Or maybe AOL's calendar doesn't support ICS files. I don't use AOL so I don't know how to advise you.

I believe that other email interfaces, such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail, or even the Thunderbird email client would offer to add the ICS file to your personal calendar.

If you use a calendar that isn't integrated with your email interface you ought to be able to save that ICS file, and then import it in your calendar. Not as simple as just clicking on it, but possibly easier and less error-prone than manually copying the info into your calendar.

Shal