Accepting community invitations

When you receive an invitation to join a community, you can accept or reject the invitation.

About this task

When a community owner or member invites you to join a community, you receive an email notification containing the invitation and some basic details about the community, such as its name and its description. You can accept or reject the invitation using the links provided in the email. These notifications also display in the Notifications view in the Home page.

In addition to getting an email invitation, you can also go to the I'm Invited view. This view shows any communities you have been invited to join. Use the Accept invitation or Decline invitation links to accept or decline the invitation. If you accept or decline using the I'm Invited view, the community is removed from the view.

Procedure

You can process a community invitation in one of the following ways:

To accept the invitation and join the community, click Join this community.
The community is then added to the list of your communities on the Communities tab.

The community is also added to the list of your communities in the I’m a Member view.
To reject the invitation, click Decline this invitation.
The community owner does not receive any notification that you rejected the invitation.
You can ignore the invitation by not taking any action.
When you ignore an invitation to join a community, the invitation can be kept open indefinitely, unless a community owner chooses to revoke it. The community owners also have the option of resending the invitation as a reminder.