Inviting External Contributors

Overview

When you belong to a group with external access, use the email addresses of users you want to invite from outside your community to participate.

Also, see the article: Group Visibility for External Contributors to understand the visibility limitations of external users.

This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to invite external contributors to join an external group.

Process

1. Go to the group's main page.
   
   
2. Select Actions > Invite members.
   
   
3. Enter the email addresses of the people you want to invite.
   
   
   • To invite several people from your email address book, you can export a comma, space, or semicolon-separated list of addresses from the email application and paste them in.
     
     
4. Edit the message you want potential group members to see with their invitation.
   
   
5. Click Send Invitation.