[FM Discuss] how to add collaborators?

[Edward Mokurai Cherlin]

On Sat, January 5, 2013 12:34 pm, helen varley jamieson wrote:
> hi,
> this might not be the right place to ask this question, as it's about
> booktype rather than FM ... but i'm not sure where else to ask it & also
> it is about the booktype manual.
>
> i want to add a collaborator to a book i've started at booki.cc, but i
> can't find a way to do this. i thought perhaps the solution would be to
> create a group, so i've done that & my collaborator has joined the group
> & i added the book to the group ... but the book doesn't show up in the
> group.

I am not aware of such a function. I thought that the way to add
yourself to a project was to start editing.

> i went to the booktype manual on FM & the steps it described for adding
> a book were exactly what i'd done - i repeated them & it still didn't
> work. now i'm guessing this is because i have the book set to be hidden
> from others, since it is a work in progress at the moment so we don't
> want it to be public.

This suggests that you give your would-be collaborator an explicit
URL, or that you

1) Unhide the project
2) Have the person join
3) Rehide the project

> i was surprised that the booktype manual didn't have a chapter more
> specifically about adding collaborators - is creating a group the only
> way to do this?

Groups are not for collaboration on a book. Books do not need to be
attached to groups. Attaching a book to a group does not make the
group collaborators. Collaboration means only editing the same book at
the same time, and having methods of communication, including the live
chat for all active editors.

> it seems that the booktype manual is fairly light in general; if i can
> be added to the collaborators on that, i can try to add things to it as
> i want the info myself.

I would like to join, too.

> thanks,
> h : )
>
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