About the Join Group Requests API

The Join Group Requests API provides functionality for managing requests to join a group.

The Join Group Requests API allows you to:

• Approve or reject requests to join a group.
• List or query requests to join a group.

Before you begin

It is important to note that this module is only relevant for private groups.

Group privacy settings

Group admins determine how site members can join a group with group.privacyStatus.

• If a group's privacy level is set to PRIVATE, a site member can request to join the group on a site's Groups List.
  • Only group admins can approve or reject member requests to join the group, unless the group setting membersCanApprove is set to true. Then, any group member can approve or reject member requests to join.
  • When a site member's request to join the group is approved, the member is added to the group.
• If a group's privacy level is set to PUBLIC, a site member can join the group immediately without submitting a request to join.
• If a group's privacy level is set to SECRET, only site members added by an existing group member can join the group, no request to join is necessary.
• When a group's privacyStatus is updated from PRIVATE to PUBLIC, all pending join requests for that group are automatically approved. When a group's privacyStatus is updated from PRIVATE to SECRET, all pending join requests for that group are automatically rejected.

Terminology

• Groups list: List of groups displayed in the Wix Groups app home page.