CUNY Academic Commons

Is there a max amount that can be entered at a time?

Yes, 5. The reason is that we don't want the Send Invites page to become a spam machine.

I'm happy to do one or both of the following:
(a) Raise the limit
(b) Add an inline note to the effect of "Max five at a time"

Hi guys,

I wanted to update this ticket because the issue seems to be that the invite counter does not reset to zero after the first 5 are sent. He is still receiving a message saying that he can invite 0 people. Could this perhaps be a browser issue, he is using Google Chrome.

Best,
Sarah

I've changed the max number of simultaneous invitations to 7. In https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/474134220ca125092cab78375d3c69def4a07d41, I add a message that explains this on the front end.

the issue seems to be that the invite counter does not reset to zero after the first 5 are sent.

I'm not able to reproduce this. There's no persistent limit - the limit of 5 (7 now) only applies to a single form submit. It's possible that the user is doing something strange with the back button, etc. Can I get exact steps to reproduce, and the text of the exact error as it appears on the screen?

Hi Boone,

Here's what Ray wrote back just now:

I clicked on Send invites, and then on the link that says to email persons not registered to the site, I entered a person’s email, the sixth one ever, and then I get the message below in the screen capture. This happens in both Chrome and IE.

Best,
Sarah

I'm still not able to reproduce the issue, strangely enough. But I did find a place in the codebase where such a problem might be occurring. I've fixed it in https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/9bdf09cebc014fd738574e46b14c05ab6a62d263.

Sarah, when this fix goes live (probably later today - follow http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu for 1.3.17 to be released), could you contact the member to see if the problem has been cleared up? Thanks.

Hi Boone,

Another member just reported the same issue (see below):

I'm trying to send invites to other staff members in CUNY to join the Academic Commons and our group 'HR Recruiting Network' but the site is not allowing me to invite anyone. The message keeps telling me that

Some of your invitations were not sent. Please see the errors below and resubmit the failed invitations.
1. You are only allowed to invite 0 more people. Please remove some addresses and try again

Since the member is trying to invite folks to a hidden group, she can't just send an email with the link. If this issue cannot be resolved quickly, is there another workaround to get these folks over to the hidden group?

Best,
Sarah

Sarah, I managed to find the bug. Fixed in https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/ef3bd19efeaa5f5562abcb2aa15070edb4755bdd

Because I had to troubleshoot this on the live site to reproduce the issue, the fix is already live.