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We are a premium group that periodically closes for several days to give the moderators a break. Is there a way to automatically send out a daily notice to all members reminding them that we are closed for specific days. (We announce and remind them in messages of the closing beforehand.) There seems to be no option to send a Special Notice daily. ?I came up empty in checking the Owner's Manual. ?Hence, my question. Thanks.

Ann?

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 10:09 PM, Ann Wild wrote:

Is there a way to automatically send out a daily notice to all members reminding them that we are closed for specific days. (We announce and remind them in messages of the closing beforehand.)

No, but you can fake it using the calendar. Set up either a repeating event and issue a #cal-notice for each one, or a single event for the last day of downtime with several #cal-reminders leading up to it.?

I don't like the above options because these same messages show up as hits when doing a hashtag search for real calendar activity. A better option for paid groups is to set up a Member Notice of type "locked group." This will be sent to anyone who attempts to post to the group during your lock.

/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/managing-member-notices/locked-group-notice?

Hope this helps,
Bruce

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Check out the groups.io Help Center?and?groups.io Owners Manual

I just activated the Locked Group notice, following the instructions from the Help Center.? But when we tested it by having a non-moderator send in a message, that message came through for posting, and he has not received the locked group message.? Does it take some amount of time for this to work?? We are a premium group.? What is going on?

Ann

Is your group actually locked?

On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 12:36 PM, Ann Wild wrote:

I just activated the Locked Group notice, following the instructions from the Help Center.? But when we tested it by having a non-moderator send in a message, that message came through for posting, and he has not received the locked group message.? Does it take some amount of time for this to work?? We are a premium group.? What is going on?

Ann, did you also lock the group? I think it would happen immediately if the group is locked and the notice is activated.
/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/locking-and-unlocking-groups-and-subgroups?single=true

Frances
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It works!!? The link I got earlier from Bruce just talked about setting up the locked groups notice, but did not include the part about having to lock the group itself.? Thanks so much!

Ann

Mod's note from Frances - Just an FYI, there is a hyperlink in the notice help page to locking - "when the group is locked".?Glad it worked!