Topic: Writing Tips & Advice group

I recreated the Writing Tips & Advice group here on the new site. If you were active in that group before, hopefully you'll join us here.

Thanks
Dirk

Re: Writing Tips & Advice group

There seems to be a problem posting to this group. I'm wondering if you have to be a member of the group in order to post. I didn't specify any limitations when I set it up, so it should be open. Please try joining the group, if you can. I tried inviting members of my connections to join, but the invitation screen is buggy and doesn't work.

Sol, if you're monitoring this, please clarify whether membership is required in order to post. Also, as noted, the screen to send out invitations to connections doesn't work. I was able to select invitees from among my connections, but the send function didn't work. Now the dropdown list doesn't work at all, so I can't retest.

Thanks,
Dirk

Re: Writing Tips & Advice group

Okay, I can get in by clicking on the link to new group posts from my front page, but if you go directly to the group and click on the "forum" icon for the group then you get the no permission message. So I'm guessing it has nothing to do with being a member of the group since I'm not a member and can click to this post. There must be a glitch one way or the other; either I can click on as a non member such as I did here or I can't click on as a non member directly from the group. Doesn't make sense. Take care. Vern

Re: Writing Tips & Advice group

Okay, I can get in by clicking on the link to new group posts from my front page, but if you go directly to the group and click on the "forum" icon for the group then you get the no permission message

You have to be a member of the group first before you can post messages.

Re: Writing Tips & Advice group

SolN wrote:

Okay, I can get in by clicking on the link to new group posts from my front page, but if you go directly to the group and click on the "forum" icon for the group then you get the no permission message

You have to be a member of the group first before you can post messages.

Thanks, Sol, for clearing that up, but why can I get in here to post the above message and this without being s member. Inquiring minds want to know. Take care. Vern

Re: Writing Tips & Advice group

Sol, this is another good example of why we need to be able to join more groups. My editor, Vern, and others used to post to the corresponding group in the old site, but since we need to be a member of the group and are allowed to join only five, some of the contributors are already maxed out, leaving a very useful group without experienced writers to answer questions. Would it be possible to have an upper limit of at least ten groups very soon? It would make it much easier for everyone to juggle the groups they belong to (drop some, join others). With five groups, we're too easily maxed out.

Thanks
Dirk

Re: Writing Tips & Advice group

Norm d'Plume wrote:

Sol, this is another good example of why we need to be able to join more groups. My editor, Vern, and others used to post to the corresponding group in the old site, but since we need to be a member of the group and are allowed to join only five, some of the contributors are already maxed out, leaving a very useful group without experienced writers to answer questions. Would it be possible to have an upper limit of at least ten groups very soon? It would make it much easier for everyone to juggle the groups they belong to (drop some, join others). With five groups, we're too easily maxed out.

Thanks
Dirk

Sol, has already made it 10 groups for Premium Members. Take care. Vern

Re: Writing Tips & Advice group

I originally published a piece on two non-points groups and now want to publish it on the Premium group to which I belong. Is there a quick way I can do this without having to go through the entire publishing routine?

Re: Writing Tips & Advice group

I tried what you advised but fumbled about and couldn't make it work. Then I tried going to Action, and clicked on Publish Setup
and revised the groups for posting to include the Premium Group. This worked. I need to create a manual of my own
for processes like this, because I can't find out how to find one on this site.