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Selecting a random name from a group
Tarak Voss
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Join date: 14 Oct 2006
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10-23-2007 02:59
I want to copy the list of group members from SL into an excel spreadsheet so I can select a random name for a competition – how can this be done? I’m open to alternative suggestions (now be polite).

I tried cutting and pasting to the Windows notebook but it wouldn't work.
Rhiannon Boronski
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10-23-2007 03:12
Hope you get an answer on this, because I would love to know if there is any way to do this myself. Also, is there a way to tell what order people joined the group, ie. to know who was the 500th member etc ?
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10-23-2007 05:47
From: Tarak Voss
how can this be done?

short answer: it can't be done

From: someone
I’m open to alternative suggestions (now be polite)

only (sensible) option is read and type

I suppose if you you can GUARANTEE that ALL members would go to a certain place, AND wear their group tags, you could capture their names using a combination of llDetectedGroup and llDetectedName.... but thats like herding ferrets or using kittens to look for a needle in a huge pile of yarn....

and nope no way to tell when someone joined a group, used to be a lil spam-o-gram in the group chat every time someone joined/left, but they cut that out (thank heavens)
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Tarak Voss
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Join date: 14 Oct 2006
Posts: 330
10-23-2007 08:26
Houston I have an idea - use SnagIt to do a screen grab of the list and OCR it - probably need a few screen grabs but I have successfully OCR'd using SnagIt 7.0 before so it might work - I'll let you know :)
Stephen Zenith
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10-23-2007 08:39
While you're doing that, set up a Jira proposal for an "Export Group members to Text File" button :)
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Tarak Voss
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Join date: 14 Oct 2006
Posts: 330
10-23-2007 15:37
No the Snagit OCR doesn't work but I think OCR might still be the work around.

I don't understand the Jira proposal thing - always seems to be so much effort for so little return

Thanks everyone for your assistance:)