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And my understanding is that there is no syncing between Group Files and content on Blog pages. According to my understanding, the only thing that syncs between groups and blogs are the member status/permissions, and feeds between the two (e.g. a group email notification is created when a blog post is posted if the two have been linked)

PRESENT:

Some posts are not showing up. There are three reasons for that as far as I can see:
1) The uploader did not check a folder. This human error can be fixed, obviously.
2) But sometimes it is because the group folder options do not match the headings on the site. I can't figure out how to have new headings that will pull from the folders.
3) Most disturbingly, sometimes (as with my just created "Test" file) it is for no reason I can discern. Attached screenshots for test file

On our Friday call, Matt expressed surprised that the groups could supply documents for the sties, if I understood correctly. But that seems to be exactly what the "Writing Fellow" screenshots show. If it worked then, shouldn't it work now?

FUTURE:

It seems to me that all this could be resolved by creating a new site wherein all the information is resubmitted as blog entries by anyone who Julia Fuller (the admin) wants to add as a Participant.

Or we could keep the Site as is, and the admin would have to place the entries in the proper pages (screenshot again), I guess she'd have to receive the new documents via email?

If you think it's appropriate, I could sit with Julia and show her either way.

re-adding Boone as assignee, not sure how he was removed!

And my understanding is that there is no syncing between Group Files and content on Blog pages. According to my understanding, the only thing that syncs between groups and blogs are the member status/permissions, and feeds between the two (e.g. a group email notification is created when a blog post is posted if the two have been linked)

This is my understanding as well. Marilyn, when I was reading your report, I kept thinking, "Neat! This sounds like a cool feature! We should build it!"

Regarding your screenshots. The "Recent Group Documents" widget does pull live information right from the group. But the top-level categories/pages on the group site were most likely created manually by the site administrator. Looking at these pages in the Dashboard of http://wacresources.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ strongly supports this hypothesis: "Teaching & Learning Strategies", for example, appears to have been created by Julie Fuller, with all the nice formatting etc added by hand.

Or we could keep the Site as is, and the admin would have to place the entries in the proper pages (screenshot again), I guess she'd have to receive the new documents via email?

If the above is correct, then this sounds like the right solution: in order to mirror the content, the administrator has to continue to do it manually. Email notifications should come through automatically as long as the user is subscribed to "All Email" in the group (and the files are not added with the "silent" chechbox checked).

I think there's no bug here, just an initial misunderstanding about intended behavior2, so I'm going to close the ticket. There may be some interesting feature ideas in the conversation above, so if anyone wants to pursue by opening up enhancement tickets, please feel free to do so.