[Liz Brown]

Hi, I am hoping to get the membership for my new commons site signed up and active soon in the private areas of the site. I’ve seen how registration works when limited to domain names, but in my case, that doesn’t work with members from more than 200 institutions, among other reasons.

What I want to do is set up the commons user accounts, with the invitations and passwords emailed to people, THEN when the people click to log in for the first time, I’d like the groups they need to be members of magically be in place. As opposed to bombarding everyone with a bunch of group invitations right after they get their initial login invitation.

Anyone with advice on how to make this happen? It would also be great to avoid laboriously setting up each person manually—I’d love to prepare an Excel spreadsheet or something similar, then load it into the commons to create the accounts and hook each account up to the correct groups and so on.

Is this possible?? Any ideas or experience with this kind of approach?

thanks!

Liz

 

[Matthew K Gold]

The closest thing to this is the Invite Anyone plugin (
http://wordpress.org/plugins/invite-anyone/ ), which @cbox_admin wrote for
the CUNY Academic Commons. Using that plugin, you could invite people to
your site and select certain groups that they will be invited to
automatically once they join. We’ve used it with success on CAC site.

[Liz Brown]

I thought I had replied to this, but thanks so much for pointing me to the invite anyone plug in. I was thinking this plugin was not going to be that useful for me since I don’t want people to be inviting other people, but the ability to dump in a bunch of emails AND choose the appropriate groups seems exactly what I need.

The only downside is that once a user registers and activates, they receive a deluge of emails with all the various group invitations (plus a friend request from  me, as the admin!). Ideally users would get activated then see the different group invitations on the Commons itself, but I can probably warn people “ignore the barrage of emails!”

thanks!

 

[Matthew K Gold]

So glad to hear that, Liz! Regarding the email notifications, you might
open an issue for the developer of the plugin on Github
https://github.com/boonebgorges/invite-anyone/issues

Best,

Matt

[Liz Brown]

thanks, Matt!

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