Inviting Users to Groups

Hello everyone, I''m pleased to inform you that the group invite links feature is now in beta. Here is a KB article explaining the feature. Do let me know if you would like to test it yourself.

As this is still in beta, all feedback is welcomed :)

For your information, we are still working on the invite to groups by email feature and hope to have it available in beta in the coming days :)

Hello everyone, I''m happy to announce that this feature is now available in beta. 

You can now test two ways to invite users to groups: using invite links AND email invitations.

Check this KB out for more information:

@bjoern_schulze @Scott Baldwin @adam.ballhaussen @nicksimard @LizZaps @dandre @security_lion @tiffany.oda @JKelley @Casstastr0phee @Onomatopoeia @Laura D. @Anitahg @Kgastaldo I enabled this for you already on your production instances so you can test it out. 

If I didn''t enable this for you, let me know so I can add you to the beta :)

Feel free to share any feedback you may have :)

Hi @Marion Frecaut! Thank you so much for involving me in this :)

A bit of feedback - I noticed that, when inviting members, we have the ability to input a custom message for the user receiving the invite. When I tested this, the custom message was not included in the email invitation, it only included a description of the group.

Is there something I need to change in System Emails to enable that personalised message to come through?

@Onomatopoeia you need to have the variable 

{custom message}

as a placeholder in your “Join a group” system email. It should be pulled in then.

@Marion Frecaut this looks great. My only ask still is the ability to import a list of people via CSV to invite to a group. In that model we’d be able to spend less time looking up hundreds of people when inviting registered users to a group and we could speed up inviting people overall that need access to a group whether they are members or non-members.

For the 

Hello @Onomatopoeia for some reason it is not showing in your template, probably has been removed at some point. You can add manually add it :)

@Scott Baldwin thanks a lot for this feedback! CSV import is definitely something we will look at in a future iteration :)

Thanks @Marion Frecaut and @Scott Baldwin :)