Extend your community by inviting people to become members.
About this task
As a community owner, you can reach out to people who you think might be interested in your community by inviting them to become members. Members of a public community can also invite people to join the community. The invitees receive an email inviting them to join the community, and they can then choose whether to accept or reject the invitation.
In addition to receiving an email invitation, invitees can go to the I'm Invited view in the Communities Catalog and see the list of communities and subcommunities that they have been invited to join. Invitees can then click the link to Accept or Decline the invitation.
If you invite someone to join a subcommunity, that user must already be a member of the parent community.
Before you invite external users to join, review your organization's security policies on data restrictions and information sharing.
You can invite people to join a community as members, you cannot invite them to join as owners of the community.
Procedure
To invite people to join a community, complete the following steps.
- Type the names of the people that you
want to invite in the Members field. Type-ahead
predicts the name that you are typing by comparing it to names in
the directory that your administrator specified. If it proposes the
name that you want, click to add it. Note: Hover the mouse over a person's name to see whether hey are an external user
.
What to do next
You can view all the pending invitations for a community from the Invitations tab on the community's Members page. The tab displays information about when each invitation was sent and who it was sent to.
