Invite new users
There are a number of ways to grant access to your uKnowva Messenger organization.
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Allow anyone to join without an invitation.
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Allow people to join based on the domain of their email address.
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Send email invitations to up to 100 addresses at a time.
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Share a reusable invitation link.
This article will cover these methods in detail.
You can also manage access by
controlling how users authenticate
to uKnowva Messenger. For example, you could allow anyone to join without an
invitation, but require them to authenticate via LDAP.
Enable email signup
- Restrict by email domain
- Allow anyone to join
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Set default streams for new users.
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Go to Organization permissions.
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Find the section Joining the organization.
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Set Are invitations required for joining the organization to No.
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Set Restrict email domains of new users? to
Restrict to a list of domains.
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Enter any number of domains. For each domain, check or uncheck
Allow subdomains.
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Click Save changes.
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Set default streams for new users.
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Go to Organization permissions.
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Find the section Joining the organization.
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Set Are invitations required for joining the organization to No.
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Set Restrict email domains of new users? to either
Don't allow disposable email addresses (recommended) or No.
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Click Save changes.
Before anyone joins your organization this way, we'll send a validation link
to verify their email address.
Send invitations
By default, organization admins and members can send
invitations. Organization admins can also change who can send invitations.
Note that on most uKnowva Messenger servers (including uKnowva Messenger Cloud), email invitations
and reusable invitation links expire 10 days after they are sent.
- Send email invitations
- Share an invite link
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From your desktop, click on the gear
() in the upper right corner.
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Select Invite users.
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Enter a list of email addresses.
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Decide whether the users should join as admins, members, or guests.
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Select which streams they should join. If you send invitations often, you
may want to configure a set of
default streams.
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Click Invite.
You will only see Invite users in the gear menu if you have
permission to invite users.
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From your desktop, click on the gear
() in the upper right corner.
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Select Invite users.
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Click Generate invite link.
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Decide whether users using the link should join as admins, members, or
guests.
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Select which streams they should join. If you send invitations often, you
may want to configure a set of
default streams.
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Click Generate invite link.
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Copy the link, and send it to anyone you'd like to invite.
You will only see Invite users in the gear menu if you have
permission to invite users.
Change who can send invitations
By default, organization admins and members can send invitations. You can
restrict invites to admins only.
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Go to Organization permissions.
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Under Joining the organization, set
Are invitations required for joining the organization? to
Yes. Only admins can send invitations.
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Click Save changes.
Manage pending invitations
Organization administrators can revoke or resend any invitation or reusable
invitation link.
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Go to Invitations.
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From here, you can view pending invitations, Revoke email invitations
and invitation links, or Resend email invitations.
