The “Invite option missing” issue occurred for cmn_jcs when the invite limit was set to 0, despite admins previously being able to send invites with this setting. CCSAwebdev found a workaround by raising the invite limit for all users. cmn_jcs confirmed this solution, but questioned whether a change had occurred in admins being able to ignore the set limit. codinghorror agreed that staff should be immune to this setting. The issue was caused by a regression in this commit and has been fixed via this pull request, as confirmed by techAPJ.
We’re running our instance with the invite only option enabled. This used to work normally. A couple weeks ago, we noticed that we can no longer get to the invite page. Clicking Admin->Users->Send Invites (and getting to <ourUrl>/users/<username>/invited) shows the image below. We’re been experimenting with SSO, but we’ve always been able to go back to invites after testing the system.
We’re running the following plugins: discourse-hipchat-plugin, docker_manager, lazyYT, and poll. Our current login-related settings that are enabled are: invite-only, enable-local-logins, and allow-new-registrations. Everything else is disabled (although sso url and sso secret have values).
Thanks for the pointer–our limit was set to 0. It looks like raising it solves our problem. That said, I’m not sure that this was an issue in the past. According to the logs, we had lowered the limit to 0 a couple months ago, and I’m reasonably confident we had sent invites (sent by admins) between then and now. So perhaps there was a change in admins being able to ignore the set limit?
