Employee User Invitations Process

This lesson got separated as it's a crucial part of the application - sending out an invitation email to an employee and allowing them to register to the system:

In this lesson, we will do the following:

• Create Invitation Model and Database tables
• Modify UserResource Create button action - to invite the Employee
• Email the invitation to the Employee
• Create a custom page that will be signature (Laravel Signer URL) protected
• Create a custom registration form for the Employee

Create Invitation Model and Database tables

Let's create our migration:

Migration

Schema::create('invitations', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->id();
    $table->string('email');
    $table->timestamps();
});

Then, we can fill our Model:

app/Models/Invitation.php

class Invitation extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = [
        'email',
    ];
}

As you can see from the setup, it's a pretty basic Model. All we care about - is the email address being invited.

Modify UserResource Create Button Action - to Invite the Employee

Next on our list, we need to modify the User Create button. We don't want to create...