The group setting for Allow users to send membership requests to group owners (Requires everyone to be able to mention the group) seems a little dangerous.
We are asking users to request permission from the group owner to join a special group, but users on the site can send a PM to that entire group or start a topic and @mention the group.
Now that the PM for the request is going to the last 5 active group owners, can we remove the "message/mention requirement or scale it back to only require group members, moderators, and admin?
The body of the PM for the request does include an @mention:
I would like to apply for membership in @%{groupName}
which is nice since the owner can navigate back to the group easily from the PM, but that just requires the group to be visible to the sender, right? Also, @mentioning a group in a PM doesn’t notify the group members.
Correct. I was just not seeing the email notifications under the default settings.
I would like to see a fix here. A current workaround is Admin > Customize > Text Content to modifiy the text for js.groups.request_membership_pm.body to remove the @mention and replace it with a link:
I would like to apply for membership.
https://example.com/groups/{{groupName}}
I could not sort out how to pass the {{base_Url}} variable for the site (so you must insert your URL here).
I also could not insert {{group}} or {{group_name}} variables for the Group Title in the PM.
I think the preferred approach would be to just include a sentence with a link using the Group Title.
I would like to apply for membership in <Group Title>.
The workaround above doesn’t solve the issue on removing the requirement for “Everyone can Message/Mention.” Hopefully that requirement will be dropped.
No problem. Here is the change-- Admin>Customize>Text Content and update js.groups.request_membership_pm.body with the following (substitute yourdomain.com and the support email address):
I would like to join the following group.
https://yourdomain.com/groups/{{groupName}}
>This group requires approval by the owner to join. Please hit the Send button below and allow time for a response. If you need assistance, you can also email support@yourdomain.com.
Note: that I also customized the button text to change it from “Message” to “Send” just to stress that user action is required to “send” the PM. You can do that by customizing js.composer.create_pm
Yes. That is the how it works. The PM will have the link in the body so that helps.
