A workspace invitation displays as an alert above the Groove taskbar icon. You might also receive a workspace invitation as a file attachment or link in an email message.
If you receive the invitation as a Groove alert,
click the alert to open the invitation.
To decline the invitation without opening it, right-click the alert
and select Decline. Groove posts
an alert for the sender saying that you've declined the invitation.
If you receive the invitation as an email message, click the link presented for accepting the invitation.
Do any of the following activities:
Click the "From" link to see the inviter's contact information.
Click the "Info" link to see more information about the workspace, including the name of the space, when it was created, who created it, the number of current members, and the space size in kilobytes. In addition, you see an estimate of the time it will take to download the space on a 56 Kbps modem connection.
Click Reply to open a message window addressed to the inviter. You might do this if you want to ask the inviter a question before you accept or decline the invitation.
Click Accept, Decline, or Close.
Note: All
invitations received via email require the sender to confirm
your acceptance before the workspace is sent to your computer.
If you click Close, the invitation
is stored in your Message History. Choose this option if you're not ready
to accept or decline the invitation yet, but you want to dismiss the invitation
notification.
If you accept the invitation, you typically see the following series of alerts, which inform you about the progress of the workspace delivery:
|
Alert |
Meaning |
|
Waiting for "workspace": Waiting to send acceptance... |
Waiting for workspace: Waiting to send acceptance |
|
Waiting for "workspace": Sending Acceptance... |
Groove is sending the invitation acceptance to the sender. |
|
Waiting for "workspace": Acceptance delivered... |
The invitation acceptance has left your computer. If the sender goes offline before receiving your acceptance, it gets routed to the relay service until the next time the sender goes back online. |
|
Waiting for "workspace": Downloading "workspace," % complete... |
Groove is downloading the workspace from the sender's computer. The percentage changes to show the progress of the transmission. If the sender goes offline before the entire workspace is sent, the workspace does not get sent. Groove will try again to send the workspace the next time the sender goes online. If you go offline before receiving the entire workspace (and if the sender stays online), the workspace gets routed to the relay service, and will be forwarded to your computer then next time you go online. |
|
Waiting for "workspace": Installing workspace... |
Groove is installing the downloaded workspace on your device. |
|
"workspace" ready (click to open)! |
The workspace is installed and ready. You can go to it by clicking the notification or by double-clicking it in My Spaces. If you do not click the notification to go to the workspace, right-click the notification to dismiss it. |
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