On my site, as I'm sure on many other sites, user-relationships are twitter-like Following/Followers. In user relationships there is only 1 type of relationship called "Follow", but what differs is the directionality of that same relationship: "You to Them" OR "Them to you".

Of course it makes sense to invite my followers. But if a user is allowed to invite people that he is following, that's tantamount to spamming. Therefore it's pretty important that that this gap should be closed.

I looked at the RSVP settings and there is no way to exclude "You to Them" types of user relationships that can be used for invitations.

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ulf1 commented

Correct. No setting available at the moment. That would be a feature request.

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Ulf

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drupalina commented

Hi,
Does that mean that you intend to implement this feature? Once it's in dev, I can test it on my site.

I think it would also make sense to allow users to distinguish between which particular followers we want to invite. We might want to invite some, but not others. (I think with current RSVP it's possible already, but not obvious and not very user friendly). I suggest creating a separate UR-RSVP block (visible on event node page to those who have the permission to invite to that particular event) which will list all "User_Relationship_name(Them_To_You)"s (i.e. followers) and present them as a list with avatars and checkboxes - with an "Invite these people" button underneath. (Look at how Facebook does it -- I think its simplicity is pretty well thought through). Like this:
Invite your followers
[v] [avatar] Susan Smith
[ ] [avatar] Mary Brown
[ ] [avatar] Adam Vincent
[v] [avatar] James Hewett
[ ] [avatar] Mario Pegg
[Invite these persons]