Accept community invitation

When another tenant invites you to a community, you receive an email invitation that you can use to join.

Note: Invitations are valid for 14 days before they expire. If you do not accept the invitation within that time, or you do not receive an invitation email, you must request a new invitation from the administrative tenant.

Prerequisites

You must be assigned a user role with community administrator permissions.

To accept an invitation:

1. Open and review the email invitation from CONNECT data services.

2. Select the VIEW COMMUNITY INVITE link.

3. If prompted, enter the tenant ID or tenant alias for your tenant and select Continue.

   Important! If you have multiple tenants, verify that you are logging into the correct tenant.

4. If prompted, log in to CONNECT data services.

   A page opens and displays that your tenant will join the community that issued the invitation.

5. Select Join.

   

   The tenant that invited you to the community is updated that you accepted their invitation.

6. Wait for a Community Administrator from the inviting tenant to confirm your tenant. Your tenant does not officially join the community until the inviting tenant confirms the invitation.

   When the administrative tenant confirms your tenant, you receive a notification email.

   Tip: You can view or cancel your invitations that are pending confirmation from the Communities page. For more information, see View pending community invitations.

7. After your tenant is confirmed for the community, select Data Management > Communities, choose your community, and then choose Community Details to set up Community Administrators and Community Members for your tenant.

   

   A setup wizard opens.

8. From the Welcome page, verify the Contact Email address and then select Next.

   The Contact Email is an email address that your business partners can use to contact you for any questions or issues related to this community. This field defaults to the email address for your user account, but you can override it by selecting and entering a new address.

   Tip: You can update your Contact Email later. For more information, see Configure contact email.

9. On the Community Administrators page, choose the CONNECT data services roles that are assigned community administration permissions. Users assigned these roles can perform administration tasks within their own tenant, but not the entire community. You can either accept the default roles or add new ones.

   • To add community administrator permissions to a user role, select Add Roles > Add Role for any role that you want to function as community administrator.

   • To remove community administrator permissions from a user role, select Remove Role for the role that you want to remove.

     Tip: You can edit the default roles that are listed. For more information, see Manage default community administrators.

10. After you finish, select Next.

11. On the Community Members page, add Community Members, which are members within your tenant that have read access to the community and its data.

    To add new Community Members, select Add Members > Add User for each user or group that you want to add.

    Note: Community Administrators are not automatically added as Community Members. If you want your Community Administrators to also be Community Members with access to shared resources, you must manually add them.

12. After you finish, select Save & Close.

Next steps

Edit permissions for data streams to allow tenant data stewards to share them with the community. Continue to Step 2: Enable stream sharing permissions.