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fyi- APUG Social Groups area is back

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Hi All,

Social groups are back. You can access the area from the "Groups" link in the APUG main menu. As far as I can tell we successfully imported group owners, members, discussions and photos.

The area is still under construction and more functionality will come.

When a group has new content you will see an alert in your menu "Alerts" area:



Also, be sure to tinker with the groups view settings located at the bottom of groups list pages:




Any questions or issues let me know.

Thanks,
Sean
 
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NedL said:
The alert feature sounds great. I know social groups was a lot of work, thank you very much!
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This should work well as the old system could not really notify you of new content. Maybe it will bring some new activity to the groups area.
 

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Having to go to each group to see what was new was a real turn-off.
The "Alerts" functionality is a real blessing.
Thanks, Sean, for your work on this!!
 
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doughowk said:
Having to go to each group to see what was new was a real turn-off.
The "Alerts" functionality is a real blessing.
Thanks, Sean, for your work on this!!
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I'm also working on a main groups landing page that is more like a portal page for all the groups. It will show categories, recent added groups, groups with recent activity, recent discussions, recent photos and more.
 

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hey sean

alerts are great, huge thanks !
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will the groups disccussion be integrated in the main forum, like the soap box is now ?
the soapbox has thousands of "views" where it used to not get many. maybe the groups
will have a better life/be more active, if their lives were more "visible" ?
 
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It might be possible and worth looking into. Also, might be useful having a new sidebar block that displays recent discussions in groups you belong to.
 

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Having the side bar for groups that am involved with would be good.
 

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Can activity in the groups show under "New" posts?
 
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Can activity in the groups show under "New" posts?
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Looking into it, but for now you'll get alerts (unless you turn off alerts for social groups in your control panel).
 
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I updated this thread with some info about display settings for the group. You'll see this option at the bottom of the groups list pages:

 

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a minor suggestion: instead of "member of groups" perhaps "My Groups" would be a bit more intuitive to signal groups of which one is already a member?
 
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