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Thanks for the new print functionality. I'm wondering if that can be extended. Here's my concrete example. Our Membership Manager can display a new application and print it to file. That creates a .pm file which none of us can open or edit. What she would like to do is create a file for editing that could then be passed amongst the Membership Committee so they can append the results of interviews and their recommendations. Upon completion of the vetting process, the Chair could then use this document to quickly create copy for a recommendation that would be broadcast to the membership for approval.

I've offered to define a Forum for them, but they don't like having any laundry hanging out where non-members can see their deliberations.

Any suggestions?

Jim Harrison
Consulting Alliance

Jim,

The file type (.pm) has to do with your printer's settings and not the WA print feature. See if you can change your printer settings so you can print to another file type (e.g. to a .pdf).

You can restrict access to forum / blog pages by putting them in the member-only section, so non-members do not have access.

 

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Jim Sympathy, Fluid Apricot

Jim,

Thanks for you reply.  I thought you'd tell me to try a different printer setting, but was hoping for a miracle.  While I can create a pdf file instead of printing a hard copy, no one in our organization has the Adobe software that can edit the file.  So I think I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place on this one, unless someone in the group has a pdf-->ms word converter.

 As to your other suggestion, even putting the Membership Committee forum within the member-only section doesn't restrict access enough.  If Committee members have dramatically different opinions on an applicant's credential, they don't want to air them even to the existing membership.

 I do appreciate your help.

 Jim Harrison

  

You can restrict forum access to Committee members only (assuming you defined a committee membership level), and that should be satisfactory. You can even add restricted access pages that only the committee members can view / access.

 

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Jim Sympathy, Fluid Apricot

Jim,

 An interesting suggestion; I'll play with it and see if that's workable.

 Jim