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On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 01:38 PM, Dan Tucker wrote:

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”.

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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.

Click open the topic, so that all of the messages within are displayed. There should be a blue button at upper left saying "Topic Properties."

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Having reached this point, you should be able to find "Split" in the More menu, except for the oldest message. As explained previously you cannot split there because it would create a topic with zero messages.

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.

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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

I think I know what you're getting at.

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Online web forums often provide a "tree structure" for a topic, displaying all the messages and their interrelationships (who replied to what), with the message that started it all at its "root." Groups.io does not operate that way... and cannot, since many of the posts come in as emails, and there's no way to definitively determine what an email might be replying to. All it can do is assume that the oldest message in the topic (i.e.: the message with the lowest message number) corresponds to when everything started, and that all the responses are related to that.

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Generally, that strikes me as a logical assumption.?

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On that basis I have to go back to what Duane said... there is no provision to alter history and insert a later message into this position (and in fact, there is no such position). The best you can do is remove earlier messages, such that they no longer appear in the topic.

Summary: We like to keep the ‘anchor’ message for the entire Topic – even if it gets contaminated – the same, and identical format.

You can create a link that opens a topic and "points to" one of the messages. Open the message in question, scroll down, and click the "View all xx messages" link. You can then copy that URL from the browser's address bar and paste it wherever you need to.

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For example, I'd consider this URL to be the "root" of the current discussion:? /g/GroupManagersForum/topic/110967242#msg48735?

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I hope this helps, 'cause I still don't fully understand your use case, and am ready to let someone else give it a shot.? :-)?

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Regards,

Bruce

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