I am trying out Discourse in anticipation of setting it up for a customer forum at work and we use Crowd for customer SSO. I would also like to be able to invite indivuduals who may not be in the Crowd dataset, alumni, partners etc. but I don’t want to allow general sign-up otherwise. I can’t seem to find the right combination of options to do what I want; a. If a user is in Crowd let them create a local account without an explicit invite b. If the user is invited via an email or a link let them create a local account without Crowd c. Not allow public sign-ups If I turn on “invite only” then Crowd auth only allows existing users access, not act as a verification, if I turn it off then anyone can sign up (staff review not withstanding). Am I missing something or is this just the way it works? Thanks for any pointers!

I’m not sure how that would make a difference, but I tried it being new here. Makes it worse - now there is an additional “Invite Code” box to fill in for a Crowd auth-ed new user. To recap, I want only two ways to create an account: Crowd auth/validated user should get an automatic pass Manually invited users not in Crowd Thanks

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Zup October 19, 2021, 5:43pm 2

Did you try specifying invite code in Discourse settings?

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