Team Chat — part 5 (bringing people into a workspace)

What it is

This is part 5 of the Team Chat page. Part 1 carries the description of the feature and everything its first version can do; this page is the two in-chat ways a workspace owner or admin brings people into it.

Where to find it

Both live in chat itself: an Invite button and a Users icon button in the sidebar header, plus an invite-by-email link at the bottom of the New DM picker. The rest of the panels are described on part 1.

How it behaves

• Invite teammates by email (admins only) — a workspace owner/admin can add new people without leaving chat: an Invite button in the sidebar header and a "Don't see someone? Invite by email" link at the bottom of the New-DM picker open a dialog to paste one or more email addresses. Invitees are added to your workspace and appear in chat once they accept and sign in (an invite is not an instant DM — their chat profile is created on first sign-in). Regular members never see the invite controls. It reuses the same workspace-invite system as Settings → User Management, so there's no separate setup.
• Add team members to Chat (admins only) — for people who are already in your workspace but don't have a chat member doc yet (e.g. they were assigned before Team Chat existed, or the backfill didn't cover them): a Users icon button in the sidebar header (next to Invite) opens a picker listing every org member who isn't already in chat. Select one or more, confirm, and their member docs are created immediately — no sign-out/sign-in required. Each added member gets a best-effort email telling them to enable Team Chat in Settings → Lab. Admin-only (same gate as Invite). Invariants: adding-org-members-creates-their-member-docs in team-chat-identity-contract.md, admins-add-members-directly in team-chat-desktop-invariants-contract.md.

Related

• Team Chat — Part 1: the feature itself and everything its first version can do.
• Team Chat — part 2 — the workspace story, per-channel roles and invitations.