Add members to a group

Hello @tiffany.oda thanks a lot for this very detailed idea. 

We are currently working on two features that will allow you to share invite links and send invite by emails to existing members. See more detail in that research article 

Still, I wonder do you see value in being able to add users without inviting them? Basically placing them in a group without asking their consent previously?

Hi @Marion Frecaut - Thanks for the reply and yes, I did see that research article! 

I do see value in being able to add users without inviting them? For example, during our User Group Leader onboarding process, we’d want to add them to their Group on inSided automatically. Or let’s say we have an event that someone has registered for and we want to add them to the Group for collaboration leading up to and during (and even after) the event! 

To note, the user could still leave the group after if they wanted to. They wouldn’t be ‘stuck’ in the group. But being able for us to proactively add members to groups was a big part of our internal processes with our previous platform and is something that would definitely help to streamline our processes as well. 

Thanks for all this detailed feedback !

@Marion Frecaut To add to that, we actually recently got an email from @Jeanie Lee inviting my colleague to join the Community Manager group on inSpired. When she clicked on the link in the email, she was already a Group Member. 

This doesn’t seem to be the system email that exists today since my colleague was already a Community Member. And this seems to be close to the idea itself here. 

Not sure how my colleague was automatically added to the group, but that’s kind of what we’re looking for. I’m not sure if it was because she clicked on the link in the email or if she was proactively added to it and just saw she was a member when she logged in. 

Hi @tiffany.oda ,

We’re working on this.  Your colleague was not manually added to the group in advanced. Once they clicked on the “join” link via email, they were added to the group, without any further approval needed, since I shared the “join” link with them. 

We are testing this feature in our own platform until it is publicly released. 

Thanks for the clarification, @Jeanie Lee!

@Jeanie Lee would they automatically be added to the group when they click the join link if it was a hidden or private group? or does this only work for public groups?

My use case is that I want a hidden group for our employees. We have over 550 and I’d like to get them all into the group without having to approve each one. 

Possible?

Yes pl… some MVPs need to just wake up inside a hidden program group without the hassle of invite > Accept invite, et all. Special scenario, but V real and pretty frequent.