Monday, June 6, 2016

2016 PEOPLE: HELP: Every community needs a group inviter. Here is simple one that handles multiple groups

Every  community needs a  group inviter.  
Here is simple one that handles multiple groups  
With Firestorm you can easily get the group URI from the group profile.  If you are just a little comfortable modifying scripts, you can easily use that URI to make a group inviter for one or several groups that does not rely on the land settings or the creator's group to set the URI.
Group profile with URI marked 

URI:  In information technology, a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify a resource.   
The most familiar kind of URI is the URL (uniform resource locator) or web address. This URI, however, is specialized for use in the Second Life and similar networks.  You don't need to bother about that.  You just need the URI for the group you want to invite people to. You get that from the Firestorm group profile with the "Copy URI" button. 
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          Communities have groups and need a group inviter script.  The ones I found were fairly complicated, because they arranged to get the URI for the group page on their own, either from the land they were on of from the active group of the object creator. 

           I thought we needed a script that could easily be used for any group on any land, could easily be modified for other communities and could invite people to multiple groups.

          Group Inviter Script

          • Pay no attention to the mention of secondlife.  That is part of the protocol.  
          • Also gives notecard which can carry information about the groups(s)
          • To offer more groups, add another llSay line for each group, with the appropriate change in the URI. 
          • To offer on arrival, change the trigger event to llVolumeDetect
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           default {
          touch_start(integer total_number)  
             {

              llSay(0, "To join Communication Arts, open chat history, click the group name in special color");  
              llSay(0, "secondlife:///app/group/446521e6-699c-48c9-a29b-dd8f588af632/about");    
              llGiveInventory(llDetectedKey(0),llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_NOTECARD, 0));
              }

          }//default close

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              1. AnonymousJune 6, 2016 at 11:23 AM

                May I suggest that instead of llSay(0,"blah.....") I would strongly suggest using

                llRegionSayTo(llDetectedKey(0),0,"blah....")

                That then only says it to the person who just touched it instead of spamming the nearby chat with it.

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