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Bulk Invite/add Users to group from list or file

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01-27-2023 01:05 PM
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PatIampietro
Frequent Contributor

Being able to assign group membership upon account creation is great, but it would be helpful if Group owners/Admins could bulk invite/add users to a group from a list or file of member names or SAML IDs rather than needing to type each one in or search for each member individually.

At the start of every semester I assist faculty by setting up groups for their course sections and adding their students to the respective groups. I accomplish this by using the "Add members using their organization-specific IDs without sending invitations" method (we use SSO Enterprise logins), which allows me to upload a class roster provided by the instructor. During the invite configuration I assign the group I've created for the course. This works fine for those that are not already org members (have never signed in), but fails for existing ones. I then have to add each of the latter to the group manually, one member at a time.

If the Invite GUI for groups included a way to past a list or upload a file of SAML IDs, member names, or email addresses, it would be much easier to add multiple members to a group at a time.

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jamesw
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Thank you @jorisfrenkel! Your code worked great and saved me a bunch of time!!