No, I have not found a decent solution yet. The only work around is for me to create every single invite. Time consuming and totally wasteful. I’m still not sure why there can’t be an option to require every invite to have a specific post as the first post a person joining the community sees and a specific group for every invite created. In other words, no invites to topics or anything else except what admin chooses. I’m also unsure why members are not provided the same option as admins to adjust invites - then we could provide specific levels with instruction on creating invites and where people go for their entrance post and what group they go into. Our community has specific areas that new members are not to access until they have been in for a specific period of time and have requested to join those areas. Leaving things open by not being able to control what group they are in when they join by invite (we are an invite only community) and what post they see first is problematic for us.
Bannering doesn’t work for this. We’ve tried. 1. The banners are ignored, especially by those on mobile. 2. The first post is long and very specific as to what they should be reading and doing first in our community (with links included so they can just work through each step in the post). Much too long for a banner. With Discourse being totally new to these people, they don’t know what to do or anything, and I have learned in my many years of experience, step by step instructions increases their success. Thus, because we have these “locked” areas for lack of a better term, no one but admin can create invites. After creating almost 9000 invites, I’m a little tired of not being able to allow members to have the invite ability.
We have adjusted requirements for trust levels that advances them through the trust levels, however those are separate from the main groups - which are Newbie and Seasoned.
Perhaps someone will have a work-around, but I suspect not since it seems the ability for regular members to direct invites the way the admin want is not there and there is no ability to decide all invites go to specific places.
I will explore automation, but I’ve got so much on my plate and have not yet learned HOW to use the automation to accomplish things.