Restricted Membership Workflow

In order for a user to join a community which is either private or has a restricted membership, a membership request should be made by the interested user. The owner of the community then either approves or denies the request. When approved, the user immediately becomes a member of the community. On the other hand, a denied user receives notice of rejection when the user logs into the portal and upon acknowledging the rejection, the user returns to the visitor status. A denied user can then submit request again at a later time. Owners can ban certain users if the owner does not even want the users to submit a request for membership.

VISITOR	--request membership-->	PENDING/VISITOR-->	approved-->	MEMBER
VISITOR	--request membership-->	PENDING/VISITOR-->	denied
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																	-->REJECTED/VISITOR	--acknowledges-->	VISITOR