How Do I Invite People to Join a Group?

As a group administrator or member, you can invite people to join groups. Keep in mind that if you're using Jive as an internal corporate community, people from outside the community might not be able to join your group.

Any group member can invite any other user to join a group. If the group is private or secret, the invited user must request to join the group after being invited. A group administrator must then approve the request to join the group. If it was a group administrator who originally sent the invitation to the private or secret group, the approval is automatic.

As a group administrator, you can delete or resend invitations while managing group membership. This can be handy if you've got a lot of outstanding unanswered invitations. Go to your group's main page, then click Manage group members. On the Manage group members page, click the Open Invitations link and select the names of people whose invitations you want to delete or resend. Use the dropdown above the list to select the action you want to take.

To invite people to join your group:

  1. Go to the group's main page.
  2. In the Actions list, click Invite people to join this group.
  3. Enter the Jive user names or email addresses of people you want to invite. To invite several people from your email address book, you must first export contact information from the email application as a CSV file and then click Import Contacts to find the CSV file.
  4. Edit the message you want potential group members to see with their invitation.
  5. Click Send Invitation.