Re: [GroupOwners 174] Newbie to using Groups

[Sean Murphy]

    Based on the suggestions in the link you provided, the calendar only needs to be public if some of the members don't have Google Calendar. You can keep it private if you can get members of the Strata Council to sign in to Google Calendar. Otherwise, you could try inviting the group email address itself to each event on the calendar, and the group would then receive reminders that would go to everyone receiving email messages, and be visible to everyone viewing the group site.

    At least, I think that would work. Unless Google blocks that sort of thing since it has been used in YahooGroups as a method for spamming a group. (I will check with an inactive group of mine and see if it works.)

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 1:41 PM, MayK <powerpuf...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm new to using Groups. My goal is to use Google Groups to help organize my Strata Council. I was hoping to use Groups to centralize discussions, Q&A, calendar sharing, and documents sharing. And I want to keep this group private and accessible to strata members. I have created a testing group to try out the features. Groups allowed me to easily start discussions and Q&A.

While I was looking into sharing Calendar (found answer here) I found that I cannot integrate a calendar into groups. But can include a link of the Calendar to the group. One thing about that is the Calendar needs to be public? Does that mean I cannot keep my Calendar private and accessible only to the selected strata members? I really don't want the calendar to be open to the entire world.

With sharing documents, is there anyway to integrate Google Docs into Groups? Where a few members can upload and edit to a centralized place, and other people on the member list and view them freely?

Thank you to anyone who can help me out.

May.

[Sean Murphy]

    Nope, I am wrong. Inviting the group email address does not actually invite the group - it invites all current members of the group individually, which isn't much of a workaround. I thought I had a useful suggestion, but it turns out I do not. Sorry.