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Garden Web messaging is back without having to follow one another!

Below I'm copying phylis's post from The Seed Exchange.

Go to https://www.houzz.com/editProfile Edit Profile -> Advanced Settings -> Privacy Settings -> Who can message me -> select "Allow anyone to message me" (near bottom of page)

That will place a "MESSAGE" link on your Member page. (Click on my name to see what I mean.)

ADDITIONALLY you will not be able to see your OWN message link on YOUR page, so you might ask that someone message you or let you know if they see it.

ADDITIONALLY , you will probably want to turn on getting email alerts whenever you get a new message. On the same Advanced Setting page as noted above choose

EMAIL NOTIFICATION...(when) Someone messages me...EVERY TIME.

That's it. I sure miss HTML.


Sue...resident busy body


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Comments (23)

  • 10 years ago

    Thanks for helping to spread the word! You can find more info about how to set it up here.

    Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana thanked Emily Hurley
  • 10 years ago

    Thanks, by following your directions, I was able to do just as you said. I am happy you posted this because technology is frustrating for me. Margo


    Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana thanked smitties
  • 10 years ago

    Chemocurl, to the rescue.....thanks!

    Annie


    Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana thanked canyonwind
  • 10 years ago

    Bump in case you didn't see this yet Mary E.

    Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana thanked cottonwood468
  • 10 years ago

    Once I got my password back, I was able to get into Advanced Settings. However, there was no box to check next to my Tradelist. I updated my profile but still can't see if anyone else can "View My Tradelist" when they click on my username.

    Is someone willing to try it and see if they can get to my Tradelist by clicking on my name, and let me know? If you can't get to it, do you have any suggestions that I haven't already tried?

    Also, the way the Tradelist showed up in Advanced Settings looks like it would be difficult to work with when I want to update the Tradelist, but the old way I used to do it - "member index page" - just gives me stuff that has nothing to do with gardening at all. Do you have any better ideas about how to update the Tradelist?

    Do we still have the capacity to search all of the Tradelists? I can't find it.

    Thanks in advance.


  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    spacetogrow- I went to your trade list. It is there. Yes, it is hard to edit in the little text box. I just worked on mine today. It helps to highlight, copy and paste it to a document and make your changes. Then, copy and paste it back to the text box. That's what I did to get a better look at it.

    At 'Your Houzz' if you go to the top of your profile page it allows you to see what others see. Click on 'preview your public profile' and go to the third icon where it says 'view my trade list.'

    I don't think we have the 'search the trade lists' option yet. They are working on getting all those goodies back for us.

  • 10 years ago

    Thanks a lot, jensyen!


  • 10 years ago

    ttt (To the top)

    I wonder if (for now anyway) I should start a new thread with the Subject Line something like...
    IMPORTANT-Please read before posting hmmmm...I would then post what I did here in the Original Post.

    Your thoughts on this? In time, I imagine that GW will provide some 'stickies' on some of the forums.


  • 10 years ago

    Sounds good to me. Several people still need to turn their messaging on.

  • 10 years ago

    hello, newbie here looking for help this spring! trying to start a garden with my nieces, if anyone can help us acquire seeds email me at ayonushatis@gmail.com

  • 10 years ago

    Chemocurl or anyone else,

    Q for you...when you receive an email stating that someone has sent you a message via HOUZZ, is there anyway to read the message in your private email without having to sign in to HOUZZ to read it? If you all remember, on GW, if you were lucky enough to receive the mail sent through the GW site, it could be read in your private email.

    Thanks much!

    Annie


  • 10 years ago

    when you receive an email stating that someone has sent you a message
    via HOUZZ, is there anyway to read the message in your private email
    without having to sign in to HOUZZ to read it?


    Annie, I just sent you a message. I don't think the actual HOUZZ message will be in the email. At (old) GW, we were actually sending an email, and not a private message via the site.

    You can check my message and post your results here, if you like.


    Sue...rbb


  • 10 years ago

    Sue,

    I did receive your private message and just responded. You are right on. I can not read the message in my email because with HOUZZ it is sent as a "private message". My private email only tells me that somone has sent me a HOUZZ message, thus I have to sign in to HOUZZ to read it .........On GW, we were sending an "email", thus I could read the message in my email..

    Hello o o o o Annie, is anybody home???? This is what I say when something is so obvious and I don't figure it out....LOL!!! Email vs private message....kind of basic!!!!

    Thanks for being an awesome rbb......

    Annie

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    when you receive an email stating that someone has sent you a message
    via HOUZZ, is there anyway to read the message in your private email
    without having to sign in to HOUZZ to read it?

    Ok, I received a private message and it said "So-and-so (fictitious member name) sent you a message," and then there is a clickable link that says "See Message". Since I don't log out of GW/Houzz, the link just takes me right to the message.


    You're welcome Annie. Glad to help. Can you tell I must be a slow typist? I didn't see your reply above before I sent this one.

  • 10 years ago

    I do log out thus I have to sign back in to read it....

  • 10 years ago

    ttt


  • 10 years ago

    Thank You!!!

  • 10 years ago

    Thank you. Now I have a question. One thread I always looked under was Seed Exchange. Was that eliminated, moved somewhere else or??? You don't have to know the answer, but you're way ahead of me. I wanted to post that I was looking for some plants in the Plant Exchange and I couldn't find either thread. Heidi

  • 10 years ago

    E Now those things are under "E", Heidi. You will see Exchanges & Trades ... click on it, and whoa! There they are! Took me awhile, but I learned to stop looking under "S" for seed, look under E for Exchange. Mary E.


  • 10 years ago

    ttt. I see there any many members in RR swaps that don't have their message links set up yet.


  • 10 years ago

    ttt. The GW experience is enhanced when you can contact other members when needed. Please get your GW Member Page Contact link set up so that you can easily be reached for trading, or just keeping in touch.

    Sue...rbb


  • 8 years ago

    Sue, thanks for this info. I tried setting up messaging, but since I didn't see the Message button, thought it wasn't working. After reading this, one doesn't see the Message button on our own profile page, whew!