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Changing the Setting for ‘How Do People Join Your Network’ from ‘Accessible Through Plans’ to ‘Invite-Only’ or ‘Anyone Can Join’
If you’ve been using Plans to provide access to your Network but want to change it so that anyone can join, or only people who are invited can join, follow these steps. Only Network Hosts can make this change.
How to change from ‘Accessible Through Plans’ to ‘Anyone Can Join’
Go to Admin, then click Privacy & Access. Click the arrow next to “Advanced: Allow Anyone to Join Without Restrictions” then check the box next to “Anyone can join immediately without restrictions.” Your Network Privacy & Access settings should now look like this:
Now your Network Landing Page will show the option to join. All existing Network members will remain on the plans that give them access to the Network.
If you no longer want people to see the plan for the Network in addition to the option to join, then go to the plan’s settings and change the plan to hidden (uncheck all boxes under “Choose Where This Plan Appears”).
How to change from ‘Accessible Through Plans’ to ‘Invite-Only’
To make this change, you need to make all active plans that include the Network inactive.
Go to the settings for each plan that includes the Network and select the Visibility & Sharing tab. Make the plan hidden by unchecking all boxes under “Choose Where This Plan Appears” then scroll to the bottom and click ‘Delete all links’ for the plan (if none were created, then you can skip this step).
All existing members will remain on the plans that give them access to the Network, but the plans will no longer be visible or available for anyone to join via a link.
Your Network Privacy & Access settings should look like this:
Now, you can use an invite link or invite people via email to join the Network. People with an invite will be granted access to the Network. People who have not been invited will not see an option to join the Network on the Landing Page.
Changing the Setting for ‘How Do People Join Your Network’ from ‘Invite-Only’ or ‘Anyone Can Join’ to ‘Accessible Through Plans’
If you set up your Network so that anyone can join, or only invited Network members can join, but you want to change to using plans to provide access to your Network, follow these steps. Network Hosts can make this change.
First, create a plan that includes the Network and any Spaces you want to give access to.
Make your plan active by clicking at least one box under “Choose Where This Plan Appears” or by creating Share Links for the plan.
If your Network was set to Anyone Can Join, you must also go to Network Privacy & Access and uncheck the box next to “Anyone can join immediately without restrictions.”
Your Network Privacy & Access settings should look like this:
All existing members still have access to the Network but will not be on a plan. Going forward, people must join the Network via a plan. Anyone who is invited to the Network will be navigated to the available plans for the Network.
If you want to learn how to change your Space from Accessible Through Plans to Invite-Only or Anyone Can Join and the reverse, check out this article.