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Re: New feature: Reply to Topic Followers Only
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Mark, can you resend this? It’s coming through with all the HTML. Thx!
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On Aug 31, 2020, at 2:50 PM, Mark Fletcher <markf@corp.groups.io> wrote: --
J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu
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Re: New feature: Reply to Topic Followers Only
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And it looks like I just uncovered a (completely unrelated) bug having to do with editing a pending message that was originally composed in Markdown causing the resulting message to be improperly HTML encoded. So I'll be fixing that. :-) Mark
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New feature: Reply to Topic Followers Only
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<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I've just pushed a new group, topic and hashtag <code>reply to</code> setting, <code>reply to topic followers only</code>. Here's how it works:</p> <ul> <li>The first message in a new topic is sent to everyone in the group as per their normal settings.</li> <li>A follow topic record is created automatically for the person who originated the topic.</li> <li>A follow topic record is created automatically for anyone who replies to this original message.</li> <li>All subsequent messages to the topic are sent only to people who are following the topic.</li> </ul> <p>This is a <code>reply to</code> setting, so if the group is set to that, it will apply to all topics. If a hashtag is set to it, it will only apply to topics with that hashtag. Also, you can take an existing topic and change the <code>reply to</code> to this new setting. When you do that, the system will create follow topic records for everyone that has participated in that topic up to that point.</p> <p>What does all this mean? It's now easier to have semi-private topics within your group; where only participants see the topic, but where the messages still get archived. You can also take an existing, active topic and <code>hide it</code> from the larger group.</p> <p>Please let me know if you have questions.</p> <p>Thanks, Mark</p>
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Event RSVP Activity Log
#done
#suggestion
Hi,
starting to use the Event RSVP a lot for the next quarter with a lot of new users and we are running into some hiccups that I think could be addressed by including information in the Activity Log. First problem was people getting RSVPs rejected due to the Event being locked. When I looked at the Event (a day later) it was not locked, but Locking an Event is not logged in the Activity log, so I can not tell if it was actually locked and unlocked, or who locked it. Second was the organizer sent out an email to the Attendees and no one got it. This 'message' is also not logged in the Activity Log as a message so once again I can not tell if it was actually submitted or not. It would make trouble shooting my new users activity easier if these were logged. Thanks, Charlie P.S. there is a bug in RSVP - when I click on View Responses it tells me how many people are attending etc. It also says I am attending on every event even though I have not responded. If I respond Will Not Attend it is correct.
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Re: Turn off Credit Card tab
#suggestion
Sorry, typo! Toggle, not goggle 😊
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On Aug 31, 2020, at 10:48 AM, J_Catlady via groups.io <j.olivia.catlady@...> wrote:
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Turn off Credit Card tab
#suggestion
But isn’t Donation a group-specific goggle? Whereas the credit card tab is account-specific. So the suggestion doesn’t really make sense.
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On Aug 31, 2020, at 10:35 AM, Chuck Palmer <palmerct@...> wrote:
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Turn off Credit Card tab
#suggestion
See this thread in GMF - https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/76526722
Suggestion is to turn off Billing->Credit Card under Account if the member is not a group owner or Donations is not turned on. If Donations is not turned on, its presence is not needed and only adds confusion for those who are not group owners. Thanks! -chuck [Mod note: edited the subject to be more descriptive]
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Re: Pending member notification but no one is pending?
#bug
Christina Shideler
Thanks so much, Mark! It is indeed fixed now. Appreciate it!
And thanks to all above for the tips. Will be sure to try should this happen again in the future!
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Permalinks for the help center
#suggestion
Mark,
For all the same reasons that Wiki pages needed permalinks for their URLs, the same is true for for Help Center pages and sections. Every link in the nav column ought to be a permalink. This would spare Nina and other GMF members an ongoing struggle to correct the link rot that results from section reorganization and heading changes in Help pages. Shal P.S. Thank you Nina for your recent round of Wiki updates!
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Use images from files section in file picker
#suggestion
Glenn Glazer
It would be nice, especially for things like the cover photo and
icon choosers, to be able to select an already uploaded file from
the file section rather than upload a file from the local computer.
This saves the step of downloading the file just to upload it again.
In our case, the person uploading the files is not the person who is
the group owner, so the file isn't just already there.
Best, Glenn --
PG&E Delenda Est
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Re: Enable ability to copy from database entry without going through edit
#suggestion
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 05:26 PM, Terry Tegnazian wrote:
and would like to be able to copy and paste the member's email address from our member databaseTerry, following on from our private messages I found a work around that may help you for now. If you try to copy any text from a row when the table is in list view it opens up the details page for that entry as you say. However, it does not do that in Map view. To get Map view you need a) a premium group that offers that feature and b) a column in your table of type 'address'. You don't need a value in any address field and you can set it to be hidden by default. Changing the table view from List to Map will display a map above the data rows but with no map pins so you can ignore it. In this view, you can copy any selected text to your clipboard quite easily without it opening the row details page. Regards, Andy
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Site updates
#changelog
Changes to the site this week:
Take care everyone. Mark
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Re: Add tags feature does not work when editing pending plan text messages
#bug
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 8:10 AM Andy Wedge <andy_wedge@...> wrote:
This should be fixed now. Thanks, Mark
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Re: Enable ability to copy from database entry without going through edit
#suggestion
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:00 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:
That is, if you have mouse cursor. Won't work with many mobile devices.It seems to work fine on my Samsung phone and tablet. I don't have any others to check. Andy
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Re: Pending member notification but no one is pending?
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 9:13 AM Christina Shideler <efa.christina.shideler@...> wrote:
We cache a count of pending members in the database. Sometimes this count gets out of sync, when someone merges their account with another account, or someone deletes their account. We (currently) don't update pending member counts when that happens. I have a process that I run on an ad hoc basis that fixes these problems. I've run it today and your pending member count should be fixed now. Thanks, Mark
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Re: Pending member notification but no one is pending?
#bug
Christina,
I had this happen to me a couple of times before, and it seems something is getting cached somewhere, because I can log out of GIO, restart the browser, login back to GIO, and it's gone. So give that a try and see if it works for you as well. You can also try logging in using a different browser to see if it doesn't happen there. Cheers, Christos
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Re: Pending member notification but no one is pending?
#bug
Did you check your activity log to see if possibly someone applied for membership, and then unsubscribed before you acted on the application? That can happen, but if so, the pending member count should be reduced, and maybe it’s not, which would be a bug.
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On Aug 28, 2020, at 9:13 AM, Christina Shideler <efa.christina.shideler@...> wrote:
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Pending member notification but no one is pending?
#bug
Christina Shideler
I apologize if this has been addressed before, a quick search did not bring it up. Also, if this is simply a case of user error on my part, please enlighten me!
I'm a moderator of a group and I think we're experiencing a bug (unless I'm missing something!). For a couple of weeks, there's been a number next to the Members in our admin tool bar. This has historically meant that we have a pending member, and indeed when I click on Members it defaults to pending members. But there are no pending members! The issues seems to have started when I approved a pending member who I think was already in the group. Is there any way to get rid of this number, and stop it defaulting to a blank screen of pending members? Attaching a screenshot to show what I mean.
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Re: Other members email addresses can be revealed by using the Directory
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 08:10 AM, Mahendra Bakshi wrote:
When you click on Email in the Directory, the window for Email shows at the very top where the Email is supposed to go, that is, member's Email address.I don't think it does that (at least, I'm not seeing it). But I wish it did. You can see it anyway if you bcc. I also wish that private replies would display the recipient's email address without having to bcc. In that case, it can be dangerous not knowing for sure where the email is going, because you have to make sure you're directly beneath the intended recipient in the message list. I bcc only because I want to doublecheck on that and always breathe a sigh of relief when I see from the bcc that it went to the person I wanted it to go to. Simplay displaying the email address at the time of the private reply would remove that anxiety. This doesn't give away any more information than what's already known, since it's already in the emailed message anyway. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Other members email addresses can be revealed by using the Directory
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Mahendra Bakshi
...sending of emails to other members without making their email address visible...
Not true. Normally email addresses are not displayed. However, When you click on Email in the Directory, the window for Email shows at the very top where the Email is supposed to go, that is, member's Email address. So it is made visible at this point. A member can copy it and save. So member's Email address is no longer private. Mahendra Bakshi.
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