I'm a manager on Google Groups for a group that has about 100 members. I want to be able to edit the display name so I can identify who my users are, instead of "JKL6" for example, which is the prefix for an email address. First, I can't seem to edit the "Display Name" and second, I have deleted the list of email addresses when I was fooling around with the identity tool. I was trying to change the settings about display name vs. Google name, and now my "Members" list does not have ANY email addresses showing.
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I figured it out.
Go to https://groups.google.com/ If you use the old interface for Google Groups click the button "Switch to the new groups".
It should sit in the lower right corner of the browser window. If you cannot find it, visit https://groups.google.com/d/?fromgroups Now set the new interface as default.Try going to https://groups.google.com/ You should now see only the new interface. It will redirect you to https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!overview
From here, click on the "Browse all" link. It will take you to https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!browse Here you should see the group categories as you're used to with the classic Google Groups interface. Only here you will not see any icons for the categories, just simple blue links. I guess it fits better with the new interface design.
Now here's what happens if I click on the "My groups" link from here.
Click on "My groups" link on the left. It will take me to https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!myforums It says "You also belong to groups in 1 other organization. show; View 1 group at googleproductforums.com"
Click on the link. It takes me to https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!myforums "Google Product Forums (59 subgroups)"
Click on the "Home" link on the left. It takes me to https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!overview
Click on "Browse all" button. It takes me to https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forumsearch/ and it shows all the subgroups... I think.
So my conclusion is that https://productforums.google.com and https://groups.google.com/ are not the same thing. Go figure! The former uses Google Groups service, but it is a separate Google website. It has no browsing of groups (subgroups actually) by category, since there are no more than 59 subgroups to Google Product Forums or 277 subgroups in total.
The same is true even if you use the classic Google Groups interface. So just make sure you are actually at https://groups.google.com/ and not some random website URL that only uses the Google Groups service and is not actually "the" Google Groups [website].
Go to Google Groups Settings > Pending Requests. The person you sent to the request to probably never answered the invitation. Delete it and resend a new one. This just happened to me.
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If you need to edit the "Display Name" of a user there is a easy work around for the Group Manager.
"Display Name" <fred@example.com>*update as of 5/21/19 the format is simply:
You don't need quotes around the name & using them makes it appear in the user name (e.g. "Fred Smith" will appear if you use quotation marks).
Put a space between first & last name, but NO other spaces are needed.
Put a comma after each bracketed email if you're adding multiple emails.
You can only add 10 emails at once.
This is handy for fixing typos or making display names more meaningful