Invite link now available in the sidebar

[twofoursixeight]

I would like to state that this the new invite modal and sidebar feature is very convient and easier than the old method of doing it in your profile.

The old way:

You have to fill in invite details and you cannot change the expiration date. And the email part can be misleading for some in the old method.

The new way:

Invites in one button press!

This menu also looks neater than before and tells you emails are optional.

Nice change.

[Octoberon]

I’ve just tried this out and I get an error when I click Save Invite if I put an email address in the Restrict To field. I’ve had a read through a few related posts but can’t see what I may be doing wrong, or if there’s a site parameter causing it.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Note on meta which is a public site, I do not feel we need to take up this real estate, invites are very very rare here.

I moved the link below into the …more section, following the instruction in the OP.

[tobiaseigen]

Do you have hide email address taken enabled?

[Octoberon]

Yes! Now it’s the old conundrum of weighing privacy against functionality, I guess.

[Sbohengel (Sibongile)]

Thank you so much

[famousamos.1]

For our community, which we want to be by invite only, we want to be able to designate which topic post and which group the invites take the new person. We do not want to have to rely on the members who have invite privileges to remember or ensure they adjust invites to the appropriate topic post and group for anyone coming into the community. Based upon historical data from the platform where we first started before moving to a discourse platform, most will just open an invite and send it not making any adjustments or changes, and this allows the new members to be in areas they should not be in yet, plus then they don’t see the first topic post we want them to see that provides directions to them on what to do first, second, third, etc. Is there a setting somewhere that makes the invites members send follow what we want it to follow.

We could use “types” of invites as well, so if they want to send an invite to a person brand new to the topic of the community they would send, say, a “member invite” but if they want to send an invite to someone who provides supporting services to members of the community they would send perhaps a “supporting invite”, as those people would be sent to a different group and initial topic post. Again, ideally, these would be already pre-set for members to use so the invitees go to the appropriate place and group without making the members change settings or remember to make the appropriate choices.

If these options are available somewhere, I haven’t found them.

[NateDhaliwal]

@famousamos.1

Is there a setting somewhere that makes the invites members send follow what we want it to follow.

There is a setting to change which trust levels can send invites.
If you go to the invite modal, and you click on the link to edit the invite options, you can also edit where the invite link will end up. You can set it to the ‘Welcome to the forum’ topic.

[famousamos.1]

Thank you, yes, we will be deciding which trust level will have invite privileges (for our community nothing less than 2 or 3 for sure; however I am not sure we want all trust level 2’s & 3’s to have invite privileges - and thus something we have to work out, I’m trying to also explore if we can assign a particular group to be the only ones, besides staff and Level 4’s, to have invite privileges, no matter if they are in 2 or 3 - so that only people in that group can invite others). I will go explore the place to indicate where the invite link ends up - but if I’m reading everything correctly, each person with invite privileges can change those settings, unfortunately. Thank you so much.

[mcwumbly (Dave McClure)]

@famousamos.1

I will go explore the place to indicate where the invite link ends up - but if I’m reading everything correctly, each person with invite privileges can change those settings, unfortunately.

Yeah, currently that’s the way it is. Users with invite privileges can edit the invite as they please, though some settings are only available to users with the appropriate privileges:

@Discourse

Note that only admin users on the site can invite a user to a topic that’s in a protected category. When doing that they will be prompted to add the user to the group that has access to the category.

@Discourse

Group owners and site admins can invite new users to a group from the group’s page

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@famousamos.1

ideally, these would be already pre-set for members to use so the invitees go to the appropriate place and group without making the members change settings or remember to make the appropriate choices.

Saving presets like this isn’t currently possible. It’s a interesting idea though.

I don’t think it’s been suggested before, but I could be wrong. (I’ve made a brief search through Feature invites). Feel free to create a new feature topic for this if you’d like to explore the idea more.

[famousamos.1]

Thank you. Will most likely do that.