Group Membership Requests—Private

Update the status of a request by a user to join a private group or get information about a request to join a private group.

Resource

1/chatter/group-membership-requests/requestId

1/connect/communities/communityId/chatter/group-membership-requests/requestId

Get the requestId by making a POST request to /chatter/groups/groupId/members/requests.

Available since version

27.0

Requires Chatter

Yes

HTTP methods

GET, HEAD, and PATCH

Request body for PATCH

Root XML tag

<groupMembershipRequestUpdate>

Properties

Name	Type	Description	Available Version
`responseMessage`	String	Use this property to provide a message to the user if their membership request is declined. The value of this property is used only when the value of the `status` property is `Declined`. The maximum length is 756 characters.	27.0
`status`	String	Valid values: `Accepted` `Declined`	27.0

Request parameters for PATCH

Parameter Name	Type	Description	Available Since
`responseMessage`	String	Use this property to provide a message to the user if their membership request is declined. The value of this property is used only when the value of the `status` property is `Declined`. The maximum length is 756 characters.	27.0
`status`	String	Valid values: `Accepted` `Declined`	27.0

Response body for GET or PATCH

Group Membership Request

Example for approving a request to join a private group using the request body

1{ "status " : "Accepted" }

Example for approving a request to join a private group using parameters

This example updates a request to join a private group from Pending to Accepted.

1/services/data/v67.0/chatter/group-membership-requests/0I5D000000002fwKAA?status=Accepted

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