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Status Future Consideration
Categories 04. Profiles
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 9, 2020

Connections Invite - start the process from a community

Please enhance the feature of Community Invite which was introduced in V6.5:

  1. allow the process to start also from a community - perhaps from the community actions menu or by a button on community members page "invite new external user into this community"

  2. once the external user finishes his self-enrollment and his account is created, the system should automatically and immediately put him into that community where the process had originated. Also the inviting internal user is notified

  • as an optional enhancement, an internal user can specify in the invitation form multiple communities (those in which he is a member) and the newly created external user should be put into all selected communities

Justification:

In real world scenarios, external users collaborate with internal users in communities rather than on individual files. In the current implementation (V6.5) there is a unwanted gap between the external user account is created and until the inviting user puts the new user into a community. From the external user's POV the system looks weird as he logs in for the first time and he can see nothing in Connections . This fact often requires additional communication to explain the confusion and extra training of users. This is a serious UX fault - please make Connections intuitive for new external users!

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  • Guest
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    Nov 20, 2020

    This is a major frustration for our firm. There are too many steps involved to get an external guest using a community. It is confusing both for the internal and external people. We have to send out a user guide to externals explaining the steps that will be involved before we have even sent them the initial invite.

  • Guest
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    Mar 26, 2020

    Absolutely agree with that. Self enrollment is a great feature, but it needs to be developed further.