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Bruce W Fairhall
 

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I decided, now our new group is established and people are accepting membership, that we should have an additional backup Owner, as recommended in the Owners' Manual.

I have set a member (he agreed) to now be a designated Owner instead of just being a Member.

So now how does he access the database and settings? Does groups.io send him login information? Or?

Thanks
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Bruce Fairhall
 

Hi Bruce, if he goes to the website, he can click login, and then he can click in the email me a login link. And he can have a login link sent to his personal email address and it will automatically log him in. He can also go there and set a password to use as well. This will be under his profile and then he can click on account.

On Nov 20, 2020, at 12:19 AM, Bruce W Fairhall <bruce@...> wrote:

I decided, now our new group is established and people are accepting membership, that we should have an additional backup Owner, as recommended in the Owners' Manual.

I have set a member (he agreed) to now be a designated Owner instead of just being a Member.

So now how does he access the database and settings? Does groups.io send him login information? Or?

Thanks
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Bruce Fairhall
 

Bruce,

If he was a group member already when you promoted him to owner, the change should take effect pretty-much immediately. ?Part of being an owner is you can see & access everything so he doesn't have to do anything special. ?If for some reason, he is having problems, it could be cached info/cookies somewhere, just have him log out of GIO and log back in as normally and now he should be OK.

Cheers,
Christos
Cal
 

Since you made him a owner you have to designate what aspects of being an owner he can change and do or not do by selecting (checking the boxes) listed under moderator or owner privilges
 

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 06:37 AM, Cal wrote:
Since you made him a owner you have to designate what aspects of being an owner he can change and do or not do
No, an owner has all privileges.? You only need to make selections for a moderator

Duane
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Bruce,

Keep in mind that being an owner on a group is not a different login. It is
just different access to the same login. When he accesses the group via the
web, he will have those additional rights and permissions tied to that
login.

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Bruce W Fairhall
 

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Thank you for all the fast replies!? Appreciated!

As he had not logged in before, having joined by subscribe email request, then I assumed he would not therefore have a password, and I wondered what the process would be so he could log in, to "act like an owner."

I'll send him your reply, Joseph.

I had looked at the Rights and decided what was there for Owners was OK.

On the road again ...


Bruce Fairhall

On 21-Nov-20 12:40 am, Ken Cameron wrote:

Bruce,

Keep in mind that being an owner on a group is not a different login. It is
just different access to the same login. When he accesses the group via the
web, he will have those additional rights and permissions tied to that
login.

-Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team

 

Bruce,

As he had not logged in before, having joined by subscribe email
request, then I assumed he would not therefore have a password, ...
Correct.

and I wondered what the process would be so he could log in, to "act
like an owner."
Just use the Log In link at the upper right of any Groups.io page (not Sign Up).

That will bring him to a page where instead of entering a password he can choose:
"Email me a link to log in",
"Forgot your password, or don't have one yet?"
or one of the social media logins.

Shal


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