question about the feature "activity"
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Hi,
I cannot find a distinction between "Member Activity" and "Moderator Activity". When I choose "Member Activity", I get activities both of "normal" members but also the ones of moderators, although there is an extra feature for "Moderator Activity". So I do not understand why both activities are mixed together in "Member Activity". I know I can check one person?s history under his subscription, but that?s not what I want. I?d like to have a clear distiction between "Member Activity" and "Moderator Activity". "Member Activity" should show activities of all members during the complete time of the group?s existence. This was an extremely practical feature in yg, for you could find at one glance who applied, joined and unsubscribed within the last few months. In groups.io I cannot find this feature, but I might have overseen it. So far I see all activites (of members and moderators) mingled together, and this makes this kind of search quite difficult. Example: If I choose "Member Activity", I get hundreds of activities of moderators (file updating and changing, message sending, photo editing, etc.) and the ones of members somewhere in between. In the pulldown menue under "Actions", I can only select one action at a time, such as "applied for membership" but not the complete history of all members applications, unsubscriptions, mail address changes of the past months or years on one page (unless I am missing s. th..). I hope I could make clear what I mean. Thanks Victoria |
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It's over simplifying it, but Member Activity is anything any member could do (although it may be done by a moderator) and Moderator Activity is what only a moderator is allowed do.
There's not an easy way to do what you've asked, but there is a way.? You could go to the Member Activity log and select Left from the Actions drop down, then click the Search button (leave Date set to Any).? This would give a list of anyone that's left the group.? Now you can copy that person's email address (or name, but email address is better) into the Search box, select All Actions from the Actions drop down menu, click the Search button (again leaving Date set to Any), and you'll have a list of all actions by that member. For other actions, you could use similar logic.? One thing that has thrown me off a few times is forgetting to click the Search button after selecting an Action. Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
开云体育Thanks, Duane, ? I?ll store this information for cases where I need it. Yes, I see it?s a bit tricky but possible. Do you think the feature that I asked about (which existed in Yahoo) is s. th. that could easily be added for groups.io? Then I would go and ask in Beta. Victoria --- ? It's over simplifying it, but Member Activity is anything any member could do (although it may be done by a moderator) and Moderator Activity is what only a moderator is allowed do. |
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On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 08:15 am, Victoria wrote:
Do you think the feature that I asked about (which existed in Yahoo) is s. th. that could easily be added for groups.io?Mark has said that virtually anything like this is possible with computers, it's a matter of whether it would be useful for many people.? It won't hurt to ask, giving as many details as possible of what you expect to see. Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 10:51 am, Victoria wrote:
I just saw that member activities which lie before the transfer date do not appear. Is this normality?I haven't transferred a group, so hopefully someone that has can answer this. Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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Victoria,
I also miss the Membership tab. It gathered in one list all the actions that affect a person's membership, without being cluttered with message or feature related actions: In Groups.io you can only do this one member at a time, as Duane described. That one's a common enough use case that I think it merits its own tab. But there are other cases where you want to find all activity related to X, but instead you have to search the handful to dozens of individual actions related to X. For example, try to find out what's happened lately in the wiki (beta ). The other key failing of Groups.io's Activity log is that the Search feature here does not do partial matches - e.g. you must search for the entire email address, not just part of it. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Victoria,
I just saw that member activities which lie before the transfer dateYes. The transfer agent does not copy the Y!Group's activity logs. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
开云体育Chris,On a related point which of the drop - down list is "Posted Message"? For messages that didn't require moderation there's Accepted message, for those that did there's Moderated message. So you may have to search two actions. Oh, and maybe Edited message and Edited message without sending to the group. And of course there's all of the error cases for messages that weren't accepted. At least for this there's the Message Activity tab to gather all of those. But that leaves out the disposition of a Moderated message - for that you must turn to the Moderator Activity or All Activity tab to find Approved pending message, Deleted pending message, and Rejected pending message. Interesting, there does not appear to be an Edited pending message. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
开云体育Shal, Duane, Chris, Bob, ? I think I will bring this up in Beta. I really miss this feature of seeing all the activities concerning the membership of a person or various persons (and nothing else but their membership). After the transfer this was and still is an extremely important feature for me in yg because I can find out quickly the date when a person joined or left the group and – very important – changed their email address. It makes it a lot easier to identify members. ? I still have the old group, and the activity log there is really helpful. But this of course only concerns members before the transfer, and now a new age has begun. So hopefully Mark can do this for groups.io as well… ? Thanks for answering! Greetings Victoria ? ? |
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On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 12:19 pm, Shal Farley wrote:
The other key failing of Groups.io's Activity log is that the Search feature here does not do partial matches - e.g. you must search for the entire email address For an email address, you must include everything before the @, or the name plus the @, or the entire thing.? I agree it would be better if it could do an even less extensive partial though. Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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