A team captain is needed

[CalicoJewels]

Our mini team is in need of a new 'fearless leader'.  

If anyone has an interest, please let it be known here and/or to one of the team leaders.  

[WhimsyWooMiniatures · Accepted solution]

If we can't find anyone else I would be prepared to be "Caretaker" captain until we find someone else.

I don't want to commit to it long term because I have some health problems.

Shirley

[AuntElliesMiniatures]

Shirley, I'm happy to accept your offer. Thank you very much.

Somewhere there's an option to name a new leader. I'll see if I can find it!

[AuntElliesMiniatures]

I found the place -- page 38 of the list of team members. I'm supposed to be able to edit your settings and change your status to Team Captain, but when I click on that option I get an error message saying that option is not available. Going to send a help message to Etsy. If I can't find another way, I may have to leave the team. 

[miniaturesforever]

I copy the text below from https://help.etsy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000343268-How-to-Be-an-Etsy-Team-Captain

To make someone else the Team Captain:

1. Go to your team’s page on Etsy—you will see your team in the ‘Your Teams’ section of the main Community page or the main Teams page
2. Click View all, found on the right hand side of your team’s page, in the Team members box
3. Next to the name of member you want to make Captain, click Edit.
4. Click Team Captain.
5. Click Save.

When you make someone else a Team Captain, you will no longer be the captain, and the new captain will take control immediately. You will remain a Team Leader.

[AuntElliesMiniatures]

I have done this exercise twice. It would be a piece of cake if Etsy let you search the Team members when you click View all, but to find the place where I can edit Shirley's settings, it means clicking on the next page (out of 57), clicking PgDn to get to the next page, then clicking again on the next page until finally you find WhimsyWooMiniatures on page 38. That's 114 clicks to get to her settings (57 clicks if you start from the end, which I did one time.) Then click on Edit/Team Captain and this message appears: Item not found. The item you are trying to access is not available. I sent an email to Etsy on 2-1-19, but they've only acknowledged that they received the message. They still haven't answered. Clicking on Save only brings up the same error message. I'm about ready to just leave the team.

[WhimsyWooMiniatures]

Ahh.  Sorry Ellie.  I didn't realise you had already tried this.

Maybe you could try leaving the team and then reapply to join as an ordinary member?  That might work.

I'll see if I can find anything out on the forums about it.

Shirley

[miniaturesforever]

not an easy task! I was just trying to be useful, sorry...

[WhimsyWooMiniatures]

Just seen this paragraph in the latest News email from Etsy:

"Simplifying group-wide communication: Improved tools for Team Captains and Leaders make it simple to quickly communicate with all members, including a streamlined group messaging feature (coming soon!) and a customisable announcements section on each team’s homepage."

So Etsy has now realised that the group messaging feature is not actually working yet.

LOL - you couldn't make it up could you.

Shirley