User invite process improvements

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

@edanto

I have an invite-only community and would like to either set the username for each invited user (preferred)

If you want to pre-stage username while inviting, there is only one option and that is generating invite links via Discourse API gem. Here is the howto:

Generating lots of Invite Tokens

This plugin is deprecated in favor of Multiple Use Invite Links. You should only use this plugin if you require invited users to land on a specific topic. Summary: Generate multiple invite tokens GitHub: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-invite-tokens Install: Follow the plugin installation guide. Configuration Enable plugin After installing plugin enable site setting invite tokens enabled. Clone Discourse API Gem If you already have Git and Ruby i…