Invitations allow you to direct potential users to your portal, making it easy for them to create their own user accounts and letting you customize their initial portal experiences with content that is of particular interest to them.

You should create a single invitation for all potential users who should be added to the same portal groups and should see the same communities, portlets, and My Pages when they first log in to your portal. After you create an invitation, you generate an invitation link to send to invitees. The invitation link expires after a specified number of users is created from the link or after the specified date. You can generate multiple invitation links for one invitation, each with different expiration settings.

To accept the invitation, the user clicks the link included in the e-mail and follows the directions to create a new user and log in to the portal. When the user logs in, the portlets, content, and communities specified in the invitation are displayed to the new user.

Users added by invitation are stored in the folder you specify in the invitation and are included in the AquaLogic Interaction Authentication Source. They are automatically given security privileges based on the default profile you specify in the invitation. Based on this security, users can personalize their views of the portal with My Pages, portlets, and community memberships, and can view portal content.