User's Group Membership Actions

Community Engine provides a Struts action class com.ndc.community.struts.actions.groupmembership.RequestGroupMembership to perform a group membership request. Here is the Struts configuration for it:

<form-bean name="groupMemberForm" type="com.ndc.community.struts.actions.forms.GroupMembershipForm" />

<action path="/group/membership/request"
        name="groupMemberForm"
        scope="request"
        type="com.ndc.community.struts.actions.groupmembership.RequestGroupMembership">
  <forward name="error" path="/group-request-error.jsp" />
  <forward name="success" path="/group-request-success.jsp" redirect="true" />
</action>

Here is an example JSP script to use this action in group's section page

<community:group id="group" name="section"/>
  
<html:form styleId="groupMemberForm" action="/group/membership/request">
  <html:hidden property="groupId" value="${group.id}" />
  <html:hidden property="userId" value="${user.id}" />
  <html:submit value="Join This Group"/>
</html:form>

Form Property	Description
`groupId`	The ID of the group to be joined.
`userId`	The ID of the user who is making the request. Normally, this property refers to the ID of the user that performs an action on his group membership.
`memberId`	Not used in this `RequestGroupMembership` `action`. Normally, this property is not used for the `action` classes where the user performs change on his group membership.

There are other user initiated actions which can be used in the similar way.

com.ndc.community.struts.actions.groupmembership.AcceptGroupInvitation - the user accepts an invitation to the group.
com.ndc.community.struts.actions.groupmembership.DeclineGroupInvitation - the user declines an invitation to the group.
com.ndc.community.struts.actions.groupmembership.ResignGroupMembership - the user quits the group.