POST /api/groups/{GroupID}/members

Invites a new member to the specified group.

Settings: This operation checks whether the setting that allows group members to invite members who are not already platform users is turned on. If the setting (InviteUnregisteredUsers) is turned off, the operation will fail. To check this setting, run the GET /api/businesses/{BusinessID}/usersettings operation.

Authorization Roles/Permissions: Must be logged in. Must have Modify permission for the resource. For example, a group leader can perform this action for the group. A Site Admin can invite another user to be a Site Admin; a Business Admin can invite another user to be a Business Admin.

Workflow: A default workflow is in effect for new group membership objects, unless a custom workflow is specified. By default, when a new group membership object is created, the API invokes the default initial action, @Invite, to start the workflow. This places the new group member in a Pending state. If a custom workflow is used, the custom workflow definition could choose which state the group membership will be placed in. For example, if you wanted to skip the acceptance of the group membership invitation by the invited user, you could develop and implement a custom workflow to skip the Pending state and put the new group membership directly into the Accepted state. For more information on workflow, see Executing Workflow Actions.

This topic includes the following sections:

HTTP Method

POST

URL

https://{hostname}/api/groups/{GroupID}/members

Sample Request

The example below shows a request to add the specified user to the team.

Request URL

https://{hostname}/api/groups/group19212.acmepaymentscorp/members

Sample request headers

POST /api/groups/group19212.acmepaymentscorp/members HTTP/1.1
Host: {hostname}
Accept: text/plain, */*; q=0.01
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
X-Csrf-Token_acmepaymentscorp: TokenID%3D8ed70a13-8469-11e8-b37a-b155e4eabeb8%2CexpirationTime%3D153...

Sample request body

{
  "Email":"hpawnitoff@acmepaymentscorp.com",
  "Role":"com.soa.group.membership.role.member",
  "Message":"Please join the team!"
}

Request Headers

For general information on request header values, refer to HTTP Request Headers.

Header	Description
Accept	Any Accept header value that supports a response Content-Type of text/plain is valid; for example, */*.
Content-Type	Any one of the following media types is valid for the request Content-Type: application/json, application/vnd.soa.v71+json, application/vnd.soa.v72+json, application/vnd.soa.v80+json, application/vnd.soa.v81+json
Cookie	AtmoAuthToken_{fedmemberid}={cookie value, which usually starts with TokenID}—The platform cookie. This is the Akana API Platform authorization token, and must be sent with every API request that requires login. For more information and an example, see Session cookies.
X-Csrf-Token_{fedmemberID}	The CSRF prevention header; may or may not be required, depending on platform settings. See CSRF Prevention on the Platform. By default, the CSRF header is not required for GET operations and is required for all others, with a few exceptions relating to user login.

Request Parameters

Parameter	Parm Type	Data Type	Required	Description
GroupID	Path	string	Required	The unique ID for a specific group.
MembershipRequest	Body	MembershipRequest	Required	Contains information about an invitation sent out to invite a new user to the group. Email and Message are required.

Response

If successful, this operation returns HTTP status code 200, with the MembershipRequestID for the request.

Sample Response

The sample response below shows successful completion of this operation.

Sample response headers

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:28:56 GMT

Sample response body

group_member_req24560.acmepaymentscorp

Response Headers

For general information on response header values, refer to HTTP Response Headers.

Header	Description
Content-Type	text/plain

Response Body

Name	Type	Description
MembershipRequestID	String	The unique ID for a specific user's membership in a specific group.

Error Codes/Messages

If the call is unsuccessful an error code/message is returned. One or more examples of possible errors for this operation are shown below.

Item	Value
400	Bad request: Returned if the client sends a malformed request; for example, invalid parameters or body content. In this operation, you'd get a 400 response if you sent an invalid parameter in the request, such as a placeholder value.
401	Unauthorized. For example, you would get this response if you didn't include the custom X-Csrf-Token_{fedmemberID} header in the request, when it was required by the platform settings; or if you included an invalid or expired value for this header. You would also get this response for any operation that requires login (almost all) if the login cookie was missing.
404	The resource could not be found. For example, you might get this if you had the wrong HTTP verb, if there is a typo in the URL, or if you provide an invalid path parameter.
405	Method Not Allowed. You might get this if there is an error in the URL, or if you used the wrong HTTP verb.
500	An error occurred processing the call.

More information about Akana API Platform API error messages.

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