[Rollercoasterider]

I'm trying something new and I don't know if or how it will work.

In my backend I can create membergroups. You can see these in profiles because subscribers are automatically added to their subscription group type and posters with mentors are added to their Mentor's group.

I'd love it if my backend allowed me to create categories of groups, but instead I just start the group name with the category--i.e. Mentor: OldPilot

So I've just created a new category of groups: MLCer Type. I don't know if this will work or not because I don't know if there is a function for finding people in your group type--once you sign yourselves up. But here are the types I' ve just created so far...

• MLCer Type: Vanisher http://mlcforum.theherosspouse.com/index.php?topic=297.0
•                       Vanisher 2 http://mlcforum.theherosspouse.com/index.php?topic=3368.0
• MLCer Type: Off-n-Ons
  http://mlcforum.theherosspouse.com/index.php?topic=305.0
• MLCer Type: Boomerang
  http://mlcforum.theherosspouse.com/index.php?topic=1536.0
• MLCer Type: Clinging Boomerang
  http://mlcforum.theherosspouse.com/index.php?topic=676.0
• MLCer Type: Low-Energy Wallower
  http://mlcforum.theherosspouse.com/index.php?topic=1301.0

       http://mlcforum.theherosspouse.com/index.php?topic=303.0

I have not created a High-Energy group because it pretty much describes most MLCers...though so does Boomerang for that matter.
I can create more and may add At-Home, but Idon't know how this will work out so I want to keep it simple for now.

These groups are ones you can sign up for on your own--I think through your profile. If you are a newbie, I recommend waiting because it can take a few months before your MLCer falls into type-pattern. And Clinging Boomerangs are also Boomerangs--it's just a subtype. but you don't have to sign up for both--or either.

I'm not doing this so that you can huddle together with your type and isolate yourselves; I'm not going to create special boards for specific groups. I just want you to have a way to search each other out...which is why I'm not sure how this will work because it depends on whether you can search each other out. So we will see.

Okay, I just tested how to add yourself to a group with my test account.

 

• Go into the Profile tab.
• Select the Modif Profile tab.
• Select Group Membership at the bottom of the pull-down menu
• Choose your group

As of now all but one of the groups are by MLCer Contact Type, so here are those articles.

http://www.midlifecrisismarriageadvocate.com/mlc_overview_contact-types.html 
http://www.midlifecrisismarriageadvocate.com/mlc_overview_contact-types_clinging-boomerang.html 
 
Oh, I added my test account to the group Clinging Boomerang, so maybe we can all try and find me there--Penelope.

[LifeGoesOn]

I believe I successfully joined a group, but now what? Where can I find it?

[Rollercoasterider]

There shouldn't be anything to find--it's not meant to be something active. It's just meant to be a tool for finding others with similar situations--hooking up Vanishers with Vanishers.

[LifeGoesOn]

I see it now. I was looking for a list, but see it by my name now.

[OldPilot]

I'm in. who knows what I did?.... LOLOL

OH you have to click on my name to find out.

I guess because I am in the moderator group


EDIT - For those people in  another GROUP it will not show up on your name - Never fear - you have still registered and at some point in the future we may get it to be able to show up for everyone.
Thanks for participating.
It is  a help.

[Rollercoasterider]

I'm in. who knows what I did?.... LOLOL

OH you have to click on my name to find out.

I guess because I am in the moderator group

This is I think the problem. I think the system only allows for one membergroup to be shown on the sidebar in posts. So we can sign up for multiple groups, but only one will show up on a glance. Even us moderators who can see the memberlist and sort it will only be able to see one group for each person.

That's why I'm just testing to see if we can all figure out how to search by group.

I'd ask at smf, but this is not the sort of question to ask on the board you and I usually post on because that is for probelms and so we would be moved somewhere else--somewhere with little traffic I assume.

[limitless]

I joined two groups, but neither showed up on my profile.

Then I left one group.

It still doesn't show the one that I kept on my profile.

Hmmm?  What did I do wrong?

L

[OldPilot]

I joined two groups, but neither showed up on my profile.

Then I left one group.

It still doesn't show the one that I kept on my profile.

Hmmm?  What did I do wrong?

L

Nothing - you are in three or 4 groups so we can only see the first two. one

[OldPilot]

RCR also What would you think about having a thread(s) or a board for these groups?

That way those of us with a certain type of MLC'er could support similar types of people.

[Thundarr]

I'm finally in a group!! Yay!! Now I belong!