Address Book subgroups

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Posts: 72 Points: 64 Rating: 2 Authority: 2 Joined: 09 June 2006

21 June 2013 18:37:21

I am sure I have seen a posting on this before, but I would like some information on how to use the group hierarchy in the address books so if anyone can point me to the source of more info I would be grateful. Specific questions are -

1. If you email a group, will the email go to all addresses in the subgroup?

2. If you do not specify templates for a subgroup, will the templates for the parent group be used?

3. Why can you make an address a member of a parent group and a subgroup, and should you?

4. What happens if an address is a member of more than one subgroup and you send an email to the parent group (assuming it will pick up all the subgroup addresses)?

I realise that I could get the answers to these questions with a lot of testing but if some one knows the answers I could save a lot of time.

Roelof Otten

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Posts: 2963 Points: 5336 Rating: 60 Authority: 60 Joined: 19 September 2004

24 June 2013 13:30:22

1- No
2- No
3- Sure, why not
4- Only the addresses in the parent group get the message

Basically subgroups are independent groups. They don't interact with their parent. Same as folders and subfolders with messages.
The idea with subgroups is thast you can organize your stuff better.
Suppose you're a member of a soccer club. You create a parent group 'my club' with sub groups trainers, medical staff, players, team A, team B, etc.
Now you've got all soccer addresses together becauise of the parent group. Now you set the trainers in the trainers group, but some trainers are players too, so you'll set them in players with all the other players. In team A you place the players of theam A and their coach and assigned medical staff.
I guess you get the picture now.

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Rick G Guru Posts: 774 Points: 2063 Rating: 52 Authority: 53 Joined: 23 July 2006	#3 0 24 June 2013 20:24:00 Well I learned something today. Thanks Roelof. I thought I read in one of the groups that there was a pass through function and I could not figure it out. I guess that is why Thanks again

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