group joiner that brings up menu with option to join, not a link in nearby chat

[AzraelAzra Sands]

I am helping set up a store and we need a script for a group joiner that brings up menu with option to join, not a link in nearby chat.

Every scrip I find puts the group join in nearby chat, can anyone help me find the script I need please?

[Fenix Eldritch]

As far as I'm aware, it is not possible for an LSL script to send group invitations such as the standard join popup directly to avatars. Rather, any time you do get that invitation, it's coming from another avatar. This includes automated scripted agents (avatars piloted by bots).

So if you want a mechanism for sending the viewer's join-group popup to an avatar, you'll need to use a bot.

Edited December 7, 2023 by Fenix Eldritch

[Frionil Fang]

You can't send a direct group invitation, but the group links can be used in a dialog box just as well as chat; it won't present you a join button directly, but it's easier to notice than a chat link (and less spammy, in case of those Very Unthoughtful objects that use channel 0 to advertise their group joins).

For example:

default
{
    touch_start(integer _) {
        llDialog(llDetectedKey(0), "Click here to join the group:\nsecondlife:///app/group/19657888-576f-83e9-2580-7c3da7c0e4ca/inspect", ["Dismiss"], -99999);
    }
}

The "dismiss" button does nothing since there is no associated listener on channel -99999, it's only there because a dialog has to have at least 1 button.

[primerib1]

So, what happens under the hood when joining a group:

The endpoint that manages group membership receives a request, containing username, user UUID, and session token, and then proceeds to process that.

The URL of the endpoint is not retrievable by a script.

Furthermore, even if you can somehow find out the URL of the endpoint, the script cannot grab a vital ingredient: Session token.

Remember that scripts run server-side, not client-side. This means that lots of information you can see on your viewer, might not be visible by the script.