Difference between revisions of "Invite code generation"

Revision as of 04:30, 29 July 2011

If you want to leave invite codes enabled on your installation, you'll need to know how to generate them for users! There are a few ways you can do it. All of them require the user who is generating the invite codes to have been granted the 'payments' priv, and for that user to be logged in.

Single-user grants

A user who has been granted the 'payments' priv visits the Admin Console while logged in (/admin/console) and generates one or more codes for a single user. The command to generate invites is:

make_invites username number "reason"

For instance:

make_invites system 5 "to create dev accounts"

The above command issues 5 invite codes to the 'system' user, with a note (where?) saying "to create dev accounts".

Multiple user grants

To give out invites to all users (who match certain criteria), a user who has been granted the 'payments' priv visits the invite codes distribution page at admin/invites/distribute.bml and (does what?). You'll need to have the 'distribute-invites" TheSchwartz worker running for this to work.

By request

While logged in as the user you want to make the invites for, visit the Invite Someone page at /manage/circle/invite.bml and click the link to request more invites. Then give yourself the 'payments' priv and visit the invite codes requests page at admin/invites/requests.bml. You'll see the request there and can choose how many invite codes to grant.