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Notification when external user accepts sharing invitation
Dear all, Wondering if its possbile to receive a notification when an external user accepts the inital sharing request? The scenario is that we would like to give external user read-only perm...
Within the Security & Compliance center you can filter by accepted invitations. So no email alert but at least you can get to the infromation:
Ok, one way to do that is to grant the new group access to the desired library, and deny that group access to everything else, then when you share the site, all the group members can do is access the desired library.
An easy way to do this is to create the new group with no permissions, then grant the group permissions to the desired library. This is easier than creating a group with some permissions and then having to remove the group from all of the lists/libraries that inherit their perms.
An easy way to do this is to create the new group with no permissions, then grant the group permissions to the desired library. This is easier than creating a group with some permissions and then having to remove the group from all of the lists/libraries that inherit their perms.
Thats what I have actually done.
1. Library (A), I stopped inheriting permissions
2. Create a group(A) with no permissions
3. Grant group A permissions (readonly) to Library A
Now when I try to share the site as you stated above, I see Group A in the drop down list but it has [No access] beside it.
Something I am doing wrong?
- I don't think so, i think that it is showing you that because the group doesn't have any access to the top level of the site. I would recommend putting a test account into the group and trying it out to confirm. I have several Hotmail accounts that i use for this purpose.
- Hi Dean,
It looks like you are answering how to share with external users. I haven't found in your answers how to get alerted when an external user first logs in and therefor accepts the invite. Reading the original post Damien is looking for alerts and already knows how to externally share content.- Thanks both for your comments and time helping me sort this.
Even though my original post was re alerts, Dean did mention that my sharing process was not right which now I am trying to understand and figure out.
To avoid confusion for others, I will maybe start a new discussion on sharing with externals and leave this for the original topic.
Hope this makes sense?
Cheers