So anyone you invite immediately has the full privileges of a member when they join? If you want these to have different privileges on what they can see, is there a better way to manage this? If you make it an open group do they assign their category themselves?
My situation is that I want members to be the ones that attend the meetings. Followers don't attend but can see what we've posted and make comments. Observers can see what we've posted but not make comments. Is there a better way to set this up?
Hi, Michael. I think you can get to where you want to be by setting the group up to have followers but hiding the option to join:
In the "Group Settings," check the "Followers" checkbox to allow the group to have following (you probably already did this when you set up your group).
Hide the option to join by checking the "Invitation only" checkbox. Now only the "Follow" link will appear if people visit your page.
To let people know they can follow the group, send them the URL in email (or tweet it, Facebook, etc). Don't use the "Invite Members" command for followers.
To invite people to be full-on members, use the "Invite Members" link on the group's page.
The settings should look like this:
You probably still want the group to be "closed" so you can be in control of moderating who can or can't be a member. Hope that helps!
Yes, this works. I confirmed that anyone who has an account can see the group and select for themselves whether they want to be a follower or observer. That's ok and I can limit their privileges. For members I invite them and they accept and immediately become a member. Great!
One problem. It appears that if you are a follower you can not see what I have posted in the documents section, in fact there is no documents section for them. If I want them to be able to see a document about what happened in the meeting where do I post it? Or is this a bug? By the privileges I thought if they could read, then they could see the uploads. What is the difference in documents and other postings like news and community messages? How do you make a community message?
Sorry, you can't classify invites. You can only manage group members once they have accepted the invite.
So anyone you invite immediately has the full privileges of a member when they join? If you want these to have different privileges on what they can see, is there a better way to manage this? If you make it an open group do they assign their category themselves?
My situation is that I want members to be the ones that attend the meetings. Followers don't attend but can see what we've posted and make comments. Observers can see what we've posted but not make comments. Is there a better way to set this up?
Hi, Michael. I think you can get to where you want to be by setting the group up to have followers but hiding the option to join:
The settings should look like this:
You probably still want the group to be "closed" so you can be in control of moderating who can or can't be a member. Hope that helps!
Yes, this works. I confirmed that anyone who has an account can see the group and select for themselves whether they want to be a follower or observer. That's ok and I can limit their privileges. For members I invite them and they accept and immediately become a member. Great!
One problem. It appears that if you are a follower you can not see what I have posted in the documents section, in fact there is no documents section for them. If I want them to be able to see a document about what happened in the meeting where do I post it? Or is this a bug? By the privileges I thought if they could read, then they could see the uploads. What is the difference in documents and other postings like news and community messages? How do you make a community message?