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Creating Group News from admin account

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Hi,

Creating new group news from admin account. I tried to upoad an image, that may or may not work. The image itself is not showing in the template, but it does say "image preview" normally when those words appear the image is shown. Will be interesting to see what happens.

Deanna

Step 5 Edited post - done.

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Hi,

I do not know what the difference is between replying and replying and entering a comment (how can you reply without entering a comment, when the latter is compulsory?), so I am doing the only thing I think I can. I am in Admin, Firefox, replying to Anja's comment on Dee's post. I have some notes on what Anja said:
* Now I understand that you can add an image, but it won't be visible in the email, only when the reader goes to the link to view the post online.
* I do not see the "send and approve" option (I only see "save" and "preview"); you likely have a different level of permission than I do, Anja.

Other notes:
* The test message I sent through from my Test account yesterday afternoon never seems to have come in (was never approved? or I never received it?).
* In trying to find that message (in vain), I looked in my Gmail "Promotions" folder, where I happened to find some emails from Dee related to this test. They were in that Gmail folder (automatically) along with advertisements for online shopping offers, etc. - not Spam but sort of distinguished by Gmail as advertising. I also found in there some emails from Chris related to the test. This might happen to others in our network who use Gmail - Dee (if you check your Gmail account) or Julie, did this happen to you? I never ever look in my Promotions folder, so I would not have seen them. (I will look there more often now!)

~ Kier