Merge pull request #9581 from loket4/development

Blocking external users

Author: NicoletaComan

content/en/docs/control-center/security/security.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ A member in Control Center means a user of the Mendix platform who participates
 
 ## Introduction 
 
-The **Settings** page in the **Security** category in Control Center allows you to configure the security settings, manage the single sign-on configurations, and view the security history of your company.
+The **Settings** page in the **Security** category in Control Center allows you to configure security settings, manage single sign-on configurations, and view the security history of your company.
 
 ## Security Settings Tab
 
@@ -27,12 +27,30 @@ The Mendix Platform digitally signs the content of emails from senders [no-reply
 
 To disable the digital signing of emails, turn off the toggle. To enable the digital signing of emails, turn on the toggle. This setting has an effect on the emails sent to all the [email domains claimed by your company](/control-center/company-settings/#company-email-domains).
 
-#### Why Would You Want to Disable the Digital Signing of Email Content? {#why-disable-email-signing}
+#### Disabling the Digital Signing of Email Content {#why-disable-email-signing}
 
-Digital signing of email content contributes to security, so why would you want to disable the digital signing of email content sometimes?
+While digital signing of email content contributes to security, there are cases where it should be disabled.
 
 Digital signing might interfere with other email safety measures like “External Email Warning”. This feature might add a customized HTML warning to the email. Since Mendix emails cannot be altered, some email servers will wrap the original message in a blank email and add the original email as an attachment. This is not beneficial for the experience of the user and will make the emails look suspicious, impacting user engagement. Also, it makes searching for emails with specific text content more difficult for users.
 
+### Allowing External User Invites to Projects {#allow-external-users}
+
+By default, members outside your organization can be invited to collaborate on projects.
+
+However, if your IT policy requires that only individuals with a [company email](/control-center/company-settings/#company-email-domains) address, meaning an email address that matches your company domains, work on projects, you can disable this option.
+
+{{% alert color="info" %}}
+If you disable this option, all invitations to email addresses outside of your company domains will be blocked. Any attempt to invite such users will result in an error.
+{{% /alert %}}
+
+Existing external collaborators are not affected by this change. You can manually remove them at any time from the [External Members](/control-center/members/#external-members) page.
+
+If you need to make an exception and temporarily invite an external member:
+
+1. Re-enable external invitations.
+2. Add the external member.
+3. Disable the setting again to reinstate the restriction.
+
 ### Application Data Replication {#application-data-replication}
 
 {{% alert color="info" %}}

content/en/docs/developerportal/general/team/_index.md

@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ To invite new team members, follow these steps:
 
 {{% alert color="info" %}}If you invite a Mendix user from your company to an app owned by your company, the invited user is added directly to the app's team.{{% /alert %}}
 
+### External Invitations
+
+You can invite users with email addresses outside of your [company domains](/control-center/company-settings/#company-email-domains), provided your company administrator has allowed this setting. If permitted, the user will receive an email invitation to join the project.    
+For more information, see [Allowing External User Invites to Projects](/control-center/security-settings/#allow-external-users).
+
 ## Read More
 
 * [App Roles](/developerportal/general/app-roles/)

content/en/docs/releasenotes/control-center/_index.md

@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ To see the current status of the Mendix Control Center, see [Mendix Status](http
 
 ## 2025
 
+### May 26, 2025
+
+* You can now restrict people from outside your organization from being invited to projects. To do that, toggle off the **External User Invites** option on the **Security Settings** tab of the Control Center **Settings** page.    
+For more information, see [Allowing External User Invites to Projects](/control-center/security-settings/#allow-external-users).
+
 ### May 22, 2025
 
 * We have replaced the [Marketplace Curation](/control-center/marketplace-curation/) <text class="badge badge-pill badge-recommended" style="margin-left:0px">RECOMMENDED</text> label with <text class="badge badge-pill badge-company-approved" style="margin-left:0px"> {{% icon name="checkmark-shield-filled" color="green" %}}COMPANY APPROVED</text>. The new label indicates Marketplace components that meet company policies and guidelines.