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Published: 2010-06-22 19:59:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 16127; Favourites: 431; Downloads: 180
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Content:1. Create a group
1.a Choosing the topic of your group
2. Enabling Joining/Manage Members
3. Enabling Submissions/Managing Gallery Folders
4. A Group Avatar
5. Setting Up Rules
5.a Submitting The Rules
6. Adding/Removing Widgets
7. Advertising Your Group
8. Activities
9. Bugs and how to avoid/fix them
10. FAQs
...because I can't join 5639587 groups to help them out...
Hope this is helpful
Edit:
As this has been asked several times:
To start a new group, go to the Groups page and click on Make a Group .
My works may not be copied, altered and reproduced in any way without my permission. This includes uploading at other websites.
Tutorial © Me
Note: Deactivated comments because I never check this account anymore and can't help with your questions and bugs, sorry!
Also note: This tutorial was made in 2010. Some things may have changed since then. If you encounter any bugs on dA's group system, try google or contacting the support!
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Comments: 218
For some reason I can't upload an icon to my group, it says that it can't resize the image. It's 100X50 and only 17.5 kb. Do you have any idea of what I might be doing wrong?
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honestly no...
try opening and saving the file again under a different location/name, maybe in a different file type or in a smaller file size
if the problem stays, better contact the support
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a different file type worked, thanks ^^
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Wow, this is a huge help. 
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So how do you make it so that when somebody doesn't check what folder they're submitting to, it isn't Featured? I want to be able to look over them and don't want them to go straight to Featured, but instead to "New Submissions". That, or make it so that it doesn't accept it right away and sends me a note request.
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You can deactivate submitting to Featured.
Then just make a new folder (it should be moved so it's right beneath the Featured folder).
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Question, whenever I click "Submit Art" button on the front page it take me to the page to upload something new. How do I fix it so that when I click the Submit Art button and I can choose from my existing art work?
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I suppose you're an admin in that group?
Go to the group's gallery, then select "Contribute existing artwork" from the options at the top. You can't use the button on the front page for that unfortunately.
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yes I am
But I am in other groups were they actually take me to my gallery to submit so I was just thinking it's quite odd.
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well, when you're an admit, you have the option to directly submit new art to the group's gallery next to submitting old art. this option is then chosen as standard... I find that inconvenient, but can't change that :T
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huh...that's quite a dumb feature...
thank you anyways for your replies
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You mentioned Sonic...In a tutorial...That has nothing to do with Sonic...YOU ARE AWESOMETASTIC!
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well, I just have to do a lot with Sonic groups
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YAY! Also, I used this to open up #TeamScrap. You can join if you like!
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...I wish I had seen this earlier. Then I wouldn't have had to type up an explanation on how to open up join requests for countless new groups. xD
Anyway, thank you! Very well laid out and detailed tutorial! ^_^
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Augh- I hate to bother you, but I'm pretty okay with groups and how to work them, myself.. but I can NOT shut off group submissions at all. I'm closing the group down and I've set everything to "not allowed" and yet people are still able to send in submission requests.
Is there something else I have to do?
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check if you're changing the settings of the right member group... you can see the list on the left in Manage Members, select 'members' there
also watch out that you click o "Show all folders" if you have more than the Featured folder
unless they're able to join as other groups and so you e.g. have some Contributors, then of course you need to change their sedttings as well
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Wow, that's frustrating. I tried all of that and a bit more before I got desperate enough to start looking up tutorials. I changed settings for all members and contributors (everything but founder and admins) to "Not allowed" on all of the folders-- and yet they're still able to send in submission requests to the Featured folder.
Should I just try contacting the help desk, instead?
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Maybe try resetting the settings and then set it all again
and if they're able to send to the Featured folder, make sure the Featured folder is disabled as well
If none of this helps, yes, try contacting the help desk
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I keep trying to do what is said to put up a group avatar, but it keeps taking me back home even though I am already at the home page. :/ any tips?
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Thank you for the tutorial!
I have a question:
What size and resolution settings shoud the backgroung image be for group journal in layout B and C?
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That actually depends on the journal skin style (fixed or relative size) and the screen resolution of the viewer
I'd suggest to either work with a tiled one or use a wallpaper with 1000+ px width (including 'bleed' if you're using a skin with relative size.
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thanks for making this, it helped me out.
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Question: If the Featured folder was active before (With Deviantations in it) If I were to close it from art being subbmitted to it, would the Deviantations in it be deleted or not?
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No, the deviations don't get deleted unless you delete the folder. The settings have no effect on that.
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Excellent tutorial. 
I have deviants submit join requests into the Co-Founders and Contributors categories, but I'm already set with my one Co-Founder. We manage the group well on our own.
Any ideas on how I turn those selections off, I've looked around and really have no idea....
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In the Manage Members section, there's a field for each member class with "enable join requests"
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This has helped me out, thank you.
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Thank you for this awesome tutorial!
It helped me a lot, but I still got problem:
When I search for my new group, it just won't appear, no matter what tags I use.
Can you give me some advice?
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The search uses the group descriptions to find groups.
You should include the tags you want your group to be found with in that description text
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Yeah, I tried that, too, but still it won't appear. Are there any settings I need to change?
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I'm not exactly sure to be honest....
Unfortunately I don't exactly know what happens on dA's server-side
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Well... I'll just wait and see.
Thank you for your help anyway ! ^^
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omg can you help me, i click on the "change avatar" thingy to make a pic since i made a new group, but it always takes 2437324235 years to load D: it's not even load, idk wtf it is! please help T-T
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Uhhhhm I don't know?
Maybe try a different browser...
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i did ;/ anyway thanks for trying to help
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thanks! I can find a lot of help from here!
um, for the group avatar, if I use a gif, it have to be fit to size right? cause DA can't resize gif.....
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I don't know... you have to try
I would always resize any picture I use as avatar myself.... I haven't used it yet but I can imagine there might me quite some quality loss... Resizing it oneself gives you more control I think.
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Yes, question, what would an application look like if you have an academy type group?
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Uhm?
I don't think I quite get that question....
It'd look like with any other group.
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I mean like if it's and Rpg Academy type thing, and you make an application to enroll, what info would be on it?
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That depends on the requirements the specific group chooses. They should have rules somewhere.
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