Partner network: invite organizations

Settled (Q4 roadmap): the network admin “invites member organizations”. First release, item 2: invite organizations already on the platform.

Working decision D10: a convener can invite a supplier directly. It is a trust question as much as a permission one; GIK has not confirmed it.

Working decision (spec D19): members reused on Create arrive pre-selected and still have to accept. Pre-selection applies only until invitations are first sent.

D11: spec section 5’s default and the decision record agree on allowing a network with no supplier, with a warning; GIK has not confirmed it. The warning is information only and never asks for a supplier. Untick Kimball Household Goods to see it.

Model R3 (Network Invitation): one invitation per organization, with a role and a status of pending, accepted, declined or expired. Gap: the dialog sets no role, so everyone is invited as a member, and expiry, resend and revoke are not drawn (T6). ▲ Open (R8): whether network invitations reuse the existing person-to-organization invites.

First release, item 9: notifications for invitations and acceptances. Drawn as an in-app cue on the invited organization’s Partner Networks page (next pages). ▲ Open (T6): the notification types and any email.

Not decided anywhere: whether a declined organization can be invited again. This page keeps round one’s behaviour: it stays unavailable.

▲ Conflict, D12 (email invitations): spec section 5: “No default. Email invitations need an onboarding hand-off that does not exist today”, and first-release item 2 covers organizations already on the platform. The decision record’s working answer is “deliver them in v1”. ERD R3’s target_email and the ontology follow the record, but a model agreeing is not a decision. GIK has confirmed neither.

Why it is drawn: so reviewers can judge the concept while the conflict stands. Sending is simulated, the branch ends at a pending invitation, and nothing here treats email invitations as in the first release.

Dialog behaviour: the dialog reopens on Find on GIK; this step shows it after selecting Invite by email. Switching tabs keeps what was ticked and typed. Cancel appears only while composing.

Model R3: an email invitation carries a target email and no organization. Sending it creates no organization, membership or access; sending is simulated here.

▲ Decision pending: how the recipient joins or creates a GIK organization (the record says it builds on GIK’s existing person-level invite and onboarding), who may accept for it, and when the invitation becomes membership. The onboarding hand-off is not drawn.

Done and Invite another: Done, the close button and Escape return to Network home; Invite another by email opens an empty form.

Network home, admin view: pending invitations are listed for the admin only. The email invitation shows the address and optional name, with no organization type or role.

Next: Kimball Household Goods reviews its invitation on the supplier side.