Invite Participants During a Meeting
    • 19 Sep 2023
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    This content explains how to invite additional participants to an active meeting using the Participants icon on the meeting bottom bar. To invite participants, you can enter their names, numbers, or email addresses and then send the invites. If you want to send SMS notifications to participants with phone numbers, you need to enable Participant Text Notifications either when scheduling a meeting or from your settings. When scheduling a meeting, you can enable SMS notifications by clicking "Enable." From the Dialpad Meetings Settings, you can enable SMS notifications by going to Participant Notifications and selecting "Text all participants" and choosing the desired SMS preference.

    Just realized you forgot to invite a colleague to your meeting? Not to worry, inviting participants to an active meeting couldn't be easier! 

    Let's take a look at how this works. 

    Who can use this feature
    Users on a free or business Dialpad Meetings license can add participants to an active meeting.

    Invite additional participants to an active meeting

    To invite participants to an active meeting, select the Participants icon from your meeting Bottom Bar.

    1. Select Invite Participants
    2. Enter the names, numbers, or email addresses of any Participants you'd like to invite 
    3. Select Send Invites

    *If entering a name, you'll need to hover over it to reveal the contact's number or email address.

     

    Note:
    If you'd like to have us instantly dial-out to the invitees, select the checkbox 'Have Dialpad Meetings dial out to participants'. 

    *Available only to US and Canadian numbers, excluding AK and HI

    Enable SMS notifications

    If you'd like to send an SMS notification when sending invites to participants with phone numbers,  Participant Text Notifications must be enabled. 

    These can be enabled at the time you schedule a meeting, or from your settings.

    Enable SMS notifications when scheduling a meeting

    To enable SMS notifications while scheduling a meeting, simply click "Enable"  you schedule the meeting.

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    Enable SMS notifications from Settings

    To enable SMS notifications from your Dialpad Meetings Settings, head to Participant Notifications.

    1. Select Text all participants
    2. Select the desired SMS preference
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