idea Allow inviting users without a public profile to a group in ArcGIS Online Ideas

Allow inviting users without a public profile to a group

ChristopherThompson — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 18:02:42 GMT

Please allow me to invite a user from another organization when i am provided their AGOL user name. When inviting a user from another organization to a group, the user's name has to be publicly visible. Sometimes organizations have good and legitimate reasons for not allowing their users to be discoverable. Not being able to collaborate with these users via group invites diminishes the utility of this capability.

Re: Allow inviting users without a public profile to a group

GregGoldman1 — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:52:33 GMT

This will help with those "invisible users" that are impossible to find otherwise. I can see organizations that have valid security concerns regulating this, but in every case that I've encountered so far this has not been the case. Possibly having users designated public through defaults, then having the option to opt-out rather than having to opt-in as in now the case.

Re: Allow inviting users without a public profile to a group

GISAdminSHN — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:59:47 GMT

How does this not have over 1,000 kudos??!! Very annoying limitation and adds to a lot of unnecessary extra communication...

Re: Allow inviting users without a public profile to a group - Status changed to: Implemented

ScottBall — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:10:11 GMT

This challenge was addressed via the Partnered Collaboration feature.