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Tweaking the message footers for one's group . . .

Brian Vogel
 

I recently received a request from one of my group members saying, "I do have a minor request. Can you please take Skype Talking out of the?
list footer? It's long dead."

Even though the details of may differ in different groups, I cannot seem to find anything obvious in the Admin panel, nor the help page, with regard to what individual group owners may tweak with regard to the individual message footers.? ?It could be they can do nothing, and this request needs to go through support.

So I'm asking here:? Can we (group owners or moderators) tweak the individual message footer template for our group and, if so, how and where?

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Brian,


So I'm asking here:? Can we (group owners or moderators) tweak the individual message footer template for our group and, if so, how and where?

You can't edit or remove the default footer items, but you can add a section to the footer. See the Message Footer text box in the Message Formatting section of the group's Settings page.

Shal

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Brian Vogel
 

Shal,

? ? ? ? ?I am guessing that access to those settings is either "Owner Only" or must be explicitly granted from the Owner to a given moderator, as I cannot find even the group's settings page as a starting point (not under Admin, not from the group home page, nowhere).

? ? ? ? ?I'll ask the group owner about this.? I know there would be no objection and he told me that we'd probably end up having to tweak permissions if we found that I were to be missing any.? Either that, or he can do it.
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Brian,


I am guessing that access to those settings is either "Owner Only" or must be explicitly granted from the Owner to a given moderator,

Correct. As a moderator you would need to have the Modify Group Settings permission.

For comparison, have a look in shalstest, where you have that permission. Also, if you click on your row from the Members list in shalstest you can see the list of permissions the owner might give you.

Shal

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Leeni
 

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I don't even see skype talking in any of the groups footers that I belong to.?
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Date: 4/17/2019 4:11:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [GMF] Tweaking the message footers for one's group . . .
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Brian,


So I'm asking here:? Can we (group owners or moderators) tweak the individual message footer template for our group and, if so, how and where?

You can't edit or remove the default footer items, but you can add a section to the footer. See the Message Footer text box in the Message Formatting section of the group's Settings page.

Shal

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Em 17/04/2019 17:54, Brian Vogel disse:
if so, how and where?

Brian,
At the risk of being wrong, as I am a complete newbie and am here more to learn than teach, I believe you can change the group footer going to Settings.
Here, I was able to find Settings just going to the "Admin" section.
Now, as I said, I can be completely wrong on this. Just thought I'd throw my two cents trying to help :)

Cheers,
Marcio AKA Starboy

Brian Vogel
 

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 06:55 PM, Leeni wrote:
I don't even see skype talking in any of the groups footers that I belong to.
Hence the reason for my earlier comment, "Even though the details of may differ in different groups."? This is a group that focuses on screen reader technology used principally by individuals who are blind, and Skype Talking is a now long defunct app that was meant to make "old Skype" much more accessible.

I expect that the variety that characterizes the owner controlled part of message footers is very large across the groups on Groups.io.
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Just thinking out loud, that may be a good place to put the hashtags for the group.? I have been having a hard time figuring out how to communicate that.? ?Does the new header section appear above or below the one we can't change?
 

Rob,

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Just thinking out loud, that may be a good place to put the hashtags for the group.
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That could get burdensome, unless you keep a tight rein on how many hashtags your group has.
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I have been having a hard time figuring out how to communicate that.? ?
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Maybe a reminder, with a link to the Hashtags page?
/g/GroupManagersForum/hashtags
(using the address of your group rather than GMF, of course)
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Does the new header section appear above or below the one we can't change?
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In the middle of. See GMF's wiki page about footers for examples.
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Shal
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