Hi everyone, I have an invite only forum thusly: [image] Is it possible for the invited members to be allowed to invite others by email? I don’t mind if I have to approve them etc as it is a small membership. Thanks for your help!

I have a similar question. Who gets to invite people to the forum? My new site is invite only and we have a small community of novice users, all invited by myself and all given trust level 2 by default. When my users want to invite more users I tell them to look for the invites page in their settings but they can’t see it. Presumably because of a setting or because of their novice status in the system. Do I need to increase their trust level or make them moderators/admins?

[image] ggstuart: Who gets to invite people to the forum? Well admin and mods can I think. I have upgraded some of the users to level 3 but can’t see that they can invite others…

I’ve done some basic searches but I can’t find the answer. Perhaps @codinghorror can give us a steer? Is there a way to give users a quota of invitations? My users are not moderators but I’d like to enable them to invite a few people each to get some suitable people into my invite-only forum.

Thanks, I might be confused but when I impersonate one of my users at TL2 I cannot see the invites ‘tab’ on their preferences. Is there another way to create an invite? Am I missing something?

Do you see the Invite button at the bottom of topics? Same process, basically: [image] That same invite functionality is available from user page as well. It’s documented in the trust level #faq topic. Do you have SSO enabled? That will prevent invites as auth is handled by the parent site in that case. When SSO is enabled, invites would bypass parent site authentication, so that’s impossible.. invites must be sent out by the parent website..

No SSO is not enabled. My TL2 users see this in their preferences page: [image] Whereas I see the invites menu item where I can review and manage my invites: [image] So my users can only invite new members when dealing directly with a single topic. Is this the intended behaviour?

I can’t explain it, @techapj can you quickly verify that TL2 users can still send invites or any other possible cause of this?

@rebel looking at the screenshot, I see that you have enabled “must approve users” site setting. You need to disable that to allow users greater than TL2 to send invites. [image] ggstuart: when I impersonate one of my users at TL2 I cannot see the invites ‘tab’ on their preferences. Make sure that “max invites per day” setting is greater than zero and “must approve users” setting is disabled.

[image] techAPJ: @rebel looking at the screenshot, I see that you have enabled “must approve users” site setting. You need to disable that to allow users greater than TL2 to send invites. Ah that makes sense!! I will change that setting. Many thanks for your help.

Invite-only Forum - Can non staff members invite others?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) November 9, 2016, 12:57am 5

TL2 users get invites.

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