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Hey folks,

I'm very excited to use group families and I've just started poking around.

But I do have a few questions/concerns

 

First- Upon making a group family I immediately lost the ability to manage it. My tools bar disappeared and

I am unable to approve members or anything like that. It is the MPIRG group family. How do I regain my management abilities?

 

Second- There does not seem to be a way to search for specific group families. The only way to access them seems to be through the browse -- even if you are the owner! I did discover the badge/brand you can put on the family member which is a good thing to have. But I feel it is insufficient. 

 

Third- Is there a way for inter-family communication without the ESA? Is the ESA a paid service?

 

Fourth- I heard a rumor about the ability to make committees as opposed to groups. Is this still a feature?

 

Thank you for your hard work, ingenuity, and awesomeness!

 

Oliver

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Zee : "Hi Maxim:

There are two places to store documents on Zanby.

- Your account (My Documents)
- Group documents

Each has its own privacy settings.

My Account
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The privacy settings for your account, including documents, can be found
in http://yourusername/users.zanby.com/en/Privacy.  In your account, you
can set your own definition of public.  Private always means that only
you will see your content.

Groups
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The "Private" setting in groups means that only group members will be
able to see the content.

In the use case that you describe, the only way is to create a sub group
of your original group.  On Zanby, this is called a Committee.  You can
call your committee, Thursday night in person meeting, or something.   A
committee is formed  with  it's own discussion board, it's own events
calendar, and it's own document folder.  The settings on the committee
can be completely private.  To form a group committee, click on the
"Tools" tab in your group workspace, then click on the "Committees"
tab.  There you will find a "Create Committee" link.

Hope that helps,

Zee



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> I am assuming that marking a document as "Public" allows anyone on the Zanby site to view it.  However, who can view the document if it is marked as "Private"?  Can only I view it?  Can only my group view it?  Does this depend on whether I save it in "My Documents" or in the group's documents?  Is there any way for me to more actively choose who can and who cannot view the document?
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> The reason for my inquiries is that I have a group that meets in person on a pretty regular basis.  We take notes at our meetings of what is said and done (i.e. minutes).  My group also has a Zanby contingent.  However, there is not a direct correlation between the people who frequent the group meetings and those that are members of my Zanby group.
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> Some people have expressed concern that some of the information shared at group meetings is done so in confidence and with trust towards the other group members present.  They do not want to see this information made available for public viewing.  In this sense "public viewing" encompasses those people who are part of my Zanby group, but do not attend group meetings personally.  We want such "virtual" members to have access to a summary of group proceedings and initiatives, but to lack access to personal details.  We would also like to have a third option for extending a more lenient level of discretion towards those "virtual" members who request more information.
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Zee : "Nichelle -

We will look into it immediately.  In all likelihood, this will be fixed
in the next build, which is in the works for the middle of December.  
Thanks for your patience and for letting us know.

Zee

Nichelle Strzepek wrote:
> When I send replies to discussion via email the html code for apostrophes is appearing in my text on the site (and the notifications sent out to other members). Is there a way to avoid or fix this? It makes reading the posts a lot more difficult. Thanks!
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Nichelle : "Ok! Thank you!"

Zee : "Nichelle:

We are really glad you are giving us a try.  We love feedback from
users, so keep that coming too, if you have the time.

I have logged the registration problem as a bug.  We agree with you that
that would be easier for the user.

Zee

Nichelle Strzepek wrote:
> When someone who isn't registered for the site clicks the link in their invitation email, they are asked to go through the process of registration.  After that process, though, they are not returned to their join link and must go back to their email and click on it again. This caused some confusion with people joining my group, which requires a password to join, so I just wanted to let you know that if there is a way for the site to "remember" what someone was doing prior to registering, it would be helpful.  
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> Thanks and I am really appreciating this site.  I am a member of groups at another site (you can probably guess which one) but it is a financial commitment to start a group.  Our little book club likes the many features you've offered here and the price is right!
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Zee : "Trisha -

I think both would be just fine for starting a committee.  However,
there are a couple of  major differences between a regular group and a
committee.

1. A committee is, by definition, a sub-group of whatever group or
family is its parent.  A Committee doesn't appear in group search results.
2. A committee can be completely private, invisible to all but the
members.  Groups are can always be found in search and browse, though
the content can be hidden and membership restricted.
3. Participation in committee discussions, content and events can be
adjusted differently than that of a group.  There is not way for a
group's discussions to be read only to group members.  A committee can
allow group members to download but not upload content.
4. The host of a group or owner of a family can appoint/remove committee
members and Chairs of the committee.  A host of a group can only
invite/approve/remove.

It probably depends on the extent to which you want others in the family
to know about the committee and how much functionality you need.

zee


Trisha Hasbargen wrote:
> Question- can anyone describe to me why I would start just a committee for a group that needs to organize itself under my group family? VS. starting a separate group for them.
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Lynn : "It's not intuitively clear that this group is the main support area.

On the support page, could you put a link to this discussion group? It would be helpful because I tend to click go to support to look for answers - and, there's more answers here than on that area.

Your site rocks.

Thanks.
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Lynn : "Here's a list of sites where you could integrate into. Good for your users, good for you to get more users...

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Lynn : "When registering, why have the zip code drop down thing? It would make more sense to just have it work like a normal (non-ajax) thing. Check it server side and send an error like usual, if there's and issue."

Zee : "Hi Janet:

Those sound like nasty bugs. Thanks for bringing these to our
attention.  We will focus on events and event-related bugs this week.

Thanks

Zee

Janet Godek wrote:
> Why is it when I go into an event and change the host/organizer (I'm lead to believe this is the same since there isn't a change organizer option) the event is removed from my group?
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BlakeRaab : "Oops, didn't mean to post this in tips and tricks.


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