awlogan requested that group owners be allowed to include a group in the initial invite, simplifying a five-step beta testing workflow into two. dax supported this, suggesting an “Invite” button specifically for owners. sjjh later characterized the issue as a bug rather than a feature request, noting that while admins see a group selection dropdown on the group page invite form, non-admin group owners do not, leading to inconsistent behavior. tobiaseigen moved sjjh’s report into this topic and proposed a new allowed_by_group setting to grant this permission to specific users, restricting them to groups they own.
nina.d highlighted further confusion, noting that link creation buttons on group pages behave inconsistently regarding group parameters. tobiaseigen initially struggled to find a workaround for non-admin group owners needing to invite clients directly into private groups. However, tobiaseigen later confirmed that the functionality now works as intended: non-admin group owners with invite privileges can see the “Add to groups” option in the advanced invite popup and select their own group, provided they perform a hard refresh or wait for permission propagation.
I’ve been trying to find a way to simplify group adds for our beta test user groups. Right now it’s a bit of work for our product managers, they have to:
Send invites to customers to create a profile
Customers open the email link and complete a profile
PM monitors invites and see who accepted them
PMs add the people who accepted the invites to the Beta Group
PMs send an email / private message to the customer that they can now access the Beta Group
I know as an admin I can add groups to the invite per this post: Invite users to a group, but I don’t really want to make these guys admins just to save a couple of steps.
What would be ideal is if the group owner could add the group to the initial invite, but be limited to the groups they own. In this case they would only be allowed to select the Beta Tester group, and not my employee, staff, or other groups.
As a stretch goal it would be nice if the email or private message could also be sent automatically when the user signs up. This would take the process down from 5 steps to 2 steps.
