Create a community invitation programmatically 

To invite someone to a community, send an Atom entry document containing the invitation to the community invitations-list resource.

See Authenticating requests for information about how to authenticate the request.

Table 1. Atom API request details

Method	Resource	URI	Input representation
POST	Community invitations list	Value of the href attribute of the <link> element with the rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/invitations-list" attribute value for each community.	invitation

Input

Provide an invitation Atom entry document.

Note: The content type of the Atom entry document must be application/atom+xml.

Output

An Atom entry document containing the new invitation.

Returned HTTP headers

HTTP/1.1 201 Created

Indicates that the invitation was successfully created. If an error occurs, this header contains one of the error codes.

Location: url

Link to edit_url of the invitation. You can use the web address specified here to subsequently retrieve and update the invitation.

Error codes

• HTTP/1.1 403 Unauthorized

• HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

• HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict: Returned if the user is already a member of the community.

Parent topic

Work with community invitations

Related reference
Invitation content

   

 

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