Re: It's beating me to death...
开云体育Thanks to all! First, My bad for making the “message” versus “Topic” part so confusing. I erred by intermingling them. There only happen to be two Topics in this transaction; 17 messages in one, six in the other. Then, in Thomas’ second Reply to this he mentions “…then after selecting ?split“?…”, which is the foundation of my ‘problem.’ In my thrashing about on this I have not been able to get “Split” to show up in the pulldown no matter which instructions I followed…or didn’t. I didn’t have any trouble with “Merging”. ? I went through, and through, and through this: /helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/managing-group-topics-and-messages/splitting-topics and was not able to get “Split” to show up. ? I really appreciate the help. I think Thomas third message, where he uses the term “anchor” is an exact description of what I’m dealing with. ? When one of our members dies (we’re a brother/sisterhood of firefighters that have worked together over more than 75 years now) we – the Mods – send out a specifically formatted “Last Alarm (hashtag)” message, with the intention of all of the ‘discussion/responses’ about that individual will be nested under that Topic/thread. Then, knowing that THAT initial notice (Topic) is the ‘parent’ to all further (yeah, right) we create a Folder in the Files for ‘all things’ (messages, pictures, tributes, obits, etc.) relative to that member, and then copy/paste the link to the ‘anchor/parent’ Topic/message into that File/Folder. That way, if someone is looking up a friend, they don’t have to look around/search for anything – it’s all linked together. But we all know how things get truncated and outside the lines after that. And, as we find the ‘stragglers and outliers’, we Merge them into the Topic that has been directly linked. ? Summary: We like to keep the ‘anchor’ message for the entire Topic – even if it gets contaminated – the same, and identical format. ? Again, THANKS!!! --
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]> on behalf of "Thomas Gruber via groups.io" <computerhusky@...> ? Thanks Bruce, this does indeed help! I wasn‘t even aware that such an option exists (merging topics).? This generates a new question, which may be related to the Dan’s original question: If you merge 2 topics, which will be the ?anchor point“ that defines the topic, and which cannot be split? Duane said that this is always the oldest message,
but by merging you might merge an older message into the topic - will that one become the new ?anchor point“ (I hope you know what I mean)? And will the previous one then loose that status, and have a ?split“ option? And if this really happens, is some sort
of refresh necessary before the new status is visible (in app and browser, which may behave differently)?
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Dan Tucker