How to set up avatar for google group? - google-groups

We are using Google Groups for managing access to our Google resources like GDocs, GDrive, Youtube videos etc. It works great, but we would like to set up avatars for them. Currently it looks ugly:
So, how can I change default pics for my groups? I was trying to find this feature in GGroups UI or support pages - no result.

As of Sept 2021 it's not possible for a Google Group to have an avatar. It only shows a generic photo.
Please go here to request the feature: https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Feature-Ideas/cmp-p/grouphub%3Aworkspace-ideas-group

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How to set starting options in facebook messenger for pages?

Is it possible to set starting options in facebook messenger for pages like example bellow:
example of expected result
I figured that similar could be achieved by using messenger BOT with 'start button', multiple BOT replies with 'quick reply' buttons and passing conversation to live chat in required cases.
The problem with this is that after user clicks 'get started' button BOT publish text replay 'Get started' which is not desired.
I wonder if there is an build-in setting to achieve this? If not, how would one solve it?
EDIT: It seems to me, it is not possible to build something like that neither with facebook quick reply neither with templates/buttons
EDIT 2: I also tried doing this in Facebook's page settings with no result. It seems it doesn't have anything to do with Facebook's 'quick replies'
First of all there is no way to set those options from facebook platform itself. Those questions are generated by facebook to give user a head start to a conversation and those are generated based on the type of page you are created. To see the option go to
Your Page's Settings-> Messaging -> General Settings
It is ideal that you will configure the 'Get Started' to initiate conversation with your bot and then show users a bunch of options using various templates like quick replies, carousel, list etc. By this way you have full control over your templates and expected answers.
But then again if you want to use those generated options from facebook then you can look for those option's text in the delivered json to your configured web hook. Here is a sample json:
{"object":"page","entry":[{"id":"","time":1519980744192,"messaging":[{"sender":{"id":""},"recipient":{"id":""},"timestamp":1519980743903,"message":{"mid":"","seq":1,"text":"Could you give me a call? I'd like to speak to someone."}}]}]}
Look at the 'text' attribute. The text is from after clicking one of those options. But again this is not ideal as the options can get changed anytime by facebook's algorithm.
My suggestion is to use 'Get Started' button and then send a list to the user.
The screenshot you posted shows a features that is currently being tested for Pages, so it is not available to every Page. There is no built-in way to do this, other than sending quick replies in response to the get started postback, messaging_optins or messaging_referrals events.
You can create a persistent menu to achieve this.
Here are few video tutorials I created to help you with Facebook integration and sending rich messages in facebook messenger through Dialogflow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ4HoYxoKl8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC9Y-AmcL6A

How to get the ad_format on Facebook Ads Api to make a good preview?

Per the documentation at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/generatepreview/,
i need to request ad previews for Facebook ads in a specific format based on the ad format.
Right now, i always request RIGHT_COLUMN_STANDARD, which won't work for some ad.
Is there a way to get directly ad_format ?
There is probably two things you can try. The first is to take a look at the page_types in the target_spec which belongs to the AdGroup and map the target to the type of preview you need.
The second is to take a look at the object_type int the AdCreative and again map that to the types of preview that are supported.

How to define what will be inserted in share message?

I have an app with blog records per each user. I have add share button to my app, to give ability to post interesting blog records to users time line or to send to other user. But in default it takes image and text for share as it wants and not always correctly. So I find out that it can be dirven by meta tags (using for example "image" property to set image for share dialog). That's work ok on main page (where I'd like to make ability share with whole application), but on pages of blog records I cann`t customize it. meta tag should be in , but all info (short text and image of blog post) I get later in body, so I can insert it. How can I manage with this? Or may be there is another way to share content with?
What blog engine are you using? If it is a wordpress - try this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-share-new/ from offician facebook docs http://developers.facebook.com/docs/. Otherwise I'd suggest to find a facebook plugin for your blog engine using google and install it.

Google Custom Search Element: Styling Ads

I added a Google Custom Search Element to my website. I already modified the look and feel of the CSE to my website, but I can't modify the look of the ads element since it is inside an Iframe.
Does anybody know how to set-up the style of the ads Iframe? I want do put in a background color and change the font.
Thanks!
This feature seems to be available only for Google Site Search customers. If you are one, you'll be able to recieve your search results as an XML feed, and apply a presentation layer on the raw data. All the details on how to do this are available at the official Google Custom Search site.
You can try this api for AdSence search - https://developers.google.com/custom-search-ads/docs/implementation-guide?hl=en , but you can't make ads view like search results.

Facebook actions like spotify?

I'm trying to understand actions and objects on facebook and im completely blown away by how spotify publishes actions with that format. How the heck do you customize the layout of a user's action like that?
As far as im concern, with facebook's lovely documentation, all you can do is publish actions on a single line : (user A) -- (action) -- on -- (object) followed by a title and description.
How do you design html/css layout of a user's actions? Link? Attachment? I'm guessing you have to do some sort of "magic" on the description? Thanks!
Facebook's open Graph Tutorial does a decent job of explaining this but with the various options you have to scroll for a while to make it to the grouping part. In short, the individual actions you're familiar with combine together via "aggregations" which can be set to show a number of formats from lists to grids.
To set one of these up you must configure your Actions and Objects via the open graph settings first and then manually create an aggregation and a few defaults to fill in for preview purposes.
This will show up when a user authenticates your app for open graph and becomes customized to them as they start actually using said actions.
Now as for the play button option, that's something I assume is unique to their integration.
Documents at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/beta/opengraph/tutorial/