Community Invitation
The community invitation system allows community moderators and administrators to invite users to join their communities. This feature provides a controlled way to grow community membership by extending personalized invitations to specific users.
Network-Level Membership Settings
Your network can be configured with different membership acceptance modes that affect how invitations work:
Automatic membership: Invited users become members immediately upon invitation
Invitation acceptance: Users must explicitly accept invitations to become members (provides user consent and control)
Invitation Types
Direct Invitation
Immediate membership: User becomes a member instantly when invited (automatic membership mode)
No user action required: Membership is activated without user intervention
Notification sent: User receives notification about being added to the community
Invitation with Acceptance
User consent required: User must accept the invitation to join (invitation acceptance mode)
Pending status: Invitation remains pending until user responds
User control: Users can accept or decline invitations
Invitation Process
When using invitation acceptance mode:
Send Invitation: Moderator sends invitation to specific user
User Notification: User receives invitation notification
User Decision: User can accept or decline the invitation
Membership Activation: Upon acceptance, user becomes community member
Confirmation: Both parties receive confirmation of membership
Managing Invitations
For Users
Get My Community Invitations
The getMyCommunityInvitations function allows users to retrieve all their pending community invitations. This helps users see which communities they've been invited to join and manage their invitation responses.
Check Community Invitation Status
This function retrieves the current status of a community invitation. It helps users understand if their invitation is still pending, has been accepted, rejected, or canceled. Users can then take appropriate actions based on the status of their invitations.
Returns invitation status: 'pending', 'accepted', 'rejected' or 'cancelled'
Accept Invitation
The acceptInvitation function allows users to accept pending community invitations. This function is only relevant when the network is configured for invitation acceptance mode.
Decline Invitation
The declineInvitation function allows users to decline pending community invitations.
For Moderators
Send Invitation
Moderators can send invitations to users to join the community:
Get Sent Invitations
Moderators can view all invitations they've sent:
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