Invite people to join a community
Overview
Community owners can invite people to become members. Members of a public community can also invite people to join the community. The invitees receive an email inviting them to join the community, and they can then choose whether to accept or reject the invitation.
In addition to receiving an email invitation, invitees can go to the I'm Invited view in the Communities Catalog and see the list of communities and subcommunities they have been invited to join. Invitees can then click the link to Accept or Decline the invitation.
If we invite someone to join a subcommunity, that user must already be a member of the parent community.
We can invite users from outside the organization, including vendors, contractors, or consultants, to join. External users can participate in the community, but there are restrictions on what they can see and do. We can invite people to join a community as members, we cannot invite them to join as owners of the community.
To invite people to join a community.
I'm an Owner | community | Members | Invite Members | names
Type-ahead predicts the name that we are typing by comparing it to names in the directory the administrator specified. If it proposes the name you want, click to add it.
Hover the mouse over a person's name to see whether they are an external user Click Send Invitations.
We can view all the pending invitations for a community from the Invitations tab on the community's Members page. The tab displays information about when each invitation was sent and who it was sent to.
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Parent topic:
How do I add community members?
Related concepts:
What can external users do?
Add members to the community
Accept membership requests
Accept community invitations