Group owners and managers can now set up automatic member approval criteria – the feature can be accessed from the Requests section of the Membership tab on the Manage group page. This enables group admins to automatically approve members for their groups based on the predefined criteria set up by them. Auto-approvals will make it easier to let in the right members into a group. After setting the criteria, group owners and managers will receive notifications when members are automatically approved. All auto approved members will appear in the Members section of the Manage group page.
Important to know
This feature is currently available only for selected groups and the desktop site.
Note: Members who do not meet your criteria will continue to require admin approval to join the group.
To apply automatic member approval criteria:
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Navigate to your Group homepage.
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Select the applicable group from the list.
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Click Manage group on the left side.
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Under Membership, click Requests [number of requests].
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Click Set up next to Automatic member approval.
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In the Select how members join this group pop-up window, select how you’d like members to join the group:
- Anyone can join without approval – If you click this, the Anyone can join pop-up window appears. Select the preconditions for profiles to limit automatic approval, such as members should have a profile photo, minimum number of connections, and limited number of group memberships.
Note: Members should have a minimum of at least 10, 20, or 50 connections, if the required precondition is selected. Members should also be a part of up to 50, 35, or 20 groups, if the required precondition is selected.
- Only members who meet the criteria can join without approval – If you click this, the Automatic member approval criteria pop-up window appears. Select the applicable criteria under Industries, Job titles, and Skill keywords. You can also select one precondition for profile to limit automatic profile.
Note: The job titles and skill keywords matching are based solely on what a member has written on their profile. We do not verify if the information is valid. Job title matching is only done based on the current job title on the profile.
- Members require admin approval to join – Select this to disable auto-approval on the group.
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Click Save.
- Anyone can join without approval – The Approve all requests pop-up window appears. Click Apply if you want to approve all pending requests to join the group. Members can directly join the group.
- Only members who meet the criteria can join without approval – The Approve members who meet the criteria pop-up window appears. Click Apply if you want to approve all pending requests to join the group. Members who meet the criteria can join the group without admin approval.
Note:
- A message appears stating that the pending requests are being processed and the group admins can see which members were approved on the Members page.
- After the criteria is applied, pending member requests to join the group can take some time to be processed depending on the number of requests. Group owners and managers will receive a notification for the approved members.
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