Add users to a group by emails through a view (allow comma separation for mulitple)

Question

I would like to be able to add users in Django to a user-created group through a view and a template form. Creating the groups is easy, I just am having trouble creating a way to add bulk users (like this email1@email.com, email2@email.com, email203920492@email.com etc) to the group. If the user exists in the system, they are sent a message to join, if they don't exist, they get a message inviting them to join the website and the group.

Answer 1

If I understand what you're asking...

If you have a list of the emails, then simply loop through the list of emails and get the user assigned to each email:

for email in emails:
    try:
        user = User.objects.get(email=email)
    except User.DoesNotExist:
        # A user doesn't exist with that email address, so send the invitation email

    # The user exists, so send them an email with a link to a view that lets them join    the group

In your view, you would add the current logged in user to the group when they visit the link, with something like:

request.user.groups.add(group)