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HOW TO CREATE DELIVERY FOR YOUR MESSAGES - YG NEO
Automated messages are a great time saver in getting the word out to everyone. Used sparingly they can help manage your groups. Whenever you create a new file (html or text), you will be offered several auto-send options. Some of the most useful of these are discussed below, but first some advice on creating a text file.
Creating a file is easy, but keep in mind:
The Yahoo Groups Help File for automated messages gives the basic information on auto-send conditions, and how to create or add delivery conditions to a file. The categories are as seen in Figure 1, those most important for EVO marked with arrows.
Figure 1. Auto-send categories
Probably the most frequently used auto-delivered messages for EVO purposes are
Where the YG Help file seems to have a break (see Figure 1), here are the remaining steps:
1. Choose >Files from the >More menu on your front page (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Selecting a file to auto-send
2. Choose the previously existing file you wish to auto-send from your list of files. Hovering over the file name will show the edit, cut, and delete icons. Select >Edit (Figure 3).
Figure 3.
3. In the resulting edit panel, you will see the file, which can be edited physically at this point, and the >Scheduling options in a pull-down menu (Figure 4).
Figure 4. Scheduling options for existing file.
4. Select the option you want, and be sure to click the large >SAVE button before leaving the page (Figure 4).
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last updated 25 October 2013 by E. Hanson-Smith