Can't include an auto-join group in an invite

Hi. I’ve asked the AI bot, but it took me on a hallucination, so asking here:

I’m the owner and admin of a private group.

We’ve been using it for years and have thousands of members. Today, I need to invite a group of 20 folks to join, and I want them to be automatically added to a group I created just for them.

When I create the invite, it lets me offer just about all of my groups as options for people to be automatically be added to, but not this one.

I originally set it up as private, but the bot thought this was a problem, so I rebuilt it, but still, no luck.

Any thoughts? I guess I can rename an older group as a hack, but that feels lazy.

Thanks.

Does it help to reload the site? I wonder if the invite modal doesn’t know about the newly created group yet.

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well that’s annoying!

the first group didn’t work for one reason. I thought I had given enough time for the replacement group to propagate (I was able to use it to alter the category permissions) but you’re absolutely right. A reload and twenty minutes and it works.

Thank you @Moin

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I agree!
I think this is worth a report in UX. It should be possible to choose a group right after creating one without a reload

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I’ll pull someone into this topic to take a peek first. If it’s a quick fix, we’ll handle it here. If it needs discussion or tracking longer term, we can spin out a new topic.

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