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Accept an invitation

An invitation makes you a member of an organisation. This page shows how to accept one and what to do when it fails. What a membership is, is explained in Your organisation and what you may do.

Before you start

  • An administrator gave you a link. The link alone grants no access.
  • You get in with the e-mail address the invitation was made for. If you have no account yet, one is ready for you and you choose its password yourself.

Steps

  1. Open the link. The page tells you your next step, and the e-mail said it too.
  2. No account yet: choose your first and last name and a password, twice, and confirm. You are then a member. Then sign in with that password; your address is already filled in. An account already: choose to sign in and sign in with the invited address. Sign in with your company account: choose that button; you go straight to your company's sign-in.
  3. OS checks the invitation and your address, and makes you a member. Your roles, groups and attributes are the ones the administrator chose when inviting you.

When it fails

  • Your password is refused: the page says which rule it does not meet, such as the minimum length. Choose another.

  • A password was already chosen with this link: sign in with that password.

  • The invitation has expired, was revoked or was already used: OS refuses the link. Ask the administrator to invite you again.

  • You are signed in with another address, or your address is not verified: OS refuses the invitation. Sign out and sign in with the invited address. A forwarded link works for nobody else.
  • The invitation has become void: when you accept, OS checks again that the inviter may still grant the chosen roles. If they lost those rights in the meantime, the invitation is void and the administrator must invite you again.
  • You would be in more than 32 projects: through the groups in your invitation and the projects shared with the whole organisation you would be in more than 32 of its projects, which is not possible. You do not become a member yet; your invitation stays valid until the date on the page. Contact the person who invited you, then choose Try again.

Via the API

POST /api/v1/invitations/preview with the token from the link says what comes next, without signing in. POST /api/v1/invitations/password with the token, your name and your password chooses the password and accepts in one go. POST /api/v1/invitations/accept with the token accepts, signed in as the invited person.