# Invite people, share to participate...what u suggest **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [April 21, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/invite-people-share-to-participate-what-u-suggest/25886 "2021-04-21T23:52:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alexandre\_Caruso](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/alexandre_caruso/32/6240_2.png) [@Alexandre\_Caruso](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Alexandre_Caruso)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/invite-people-share-to-participate-what-u-suggest/25886/1 "2021-04-21T23:52:04Z")
Guys, I have an application to help poor people or people in difficult conditions in this pandemic. Here on this screen, users can get a quota of this bill in order to participate like crowdfunding of this bill. I guess in English pass the hat, maybe. Here I´d like to get your opinion on what I could do in order to invite friends to participate. Like an email or Whatsapp msg “Hi friend, I’m getting a piece of this bill, come here with me and help” sth like that. So what would u do? This community has already saved me a lot of time, maybe could give me an idea. I’ll appreciate it. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/0/6/06cfd42a71d922ccd8851504e3cbc47fe80c5a0b.png) ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/invite-people-share-to-participate-what-u-suggest/25886/2 "2021-04-22T00:22:36Z")
Maybe have a “share” button with a link to screen \> this item? Clicking that button would first do a set column to write the deeplink URL to a “post URL” column. Then on that link to screen, allow the user to type a message in a user specific column. Have a template column that merges the message with the post URL. Then when clicking share it shows sharing menu of that template column? ---
**Author:** ![Alexandre\_Caruso](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/alexandre_caruso/32/6240_2.png) [@Alexandre\_Caruso](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Alexandre_Caruso)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/invite-people-share-to-participate-what-u-suggest/25886/3 "2021-04-22T01:04:39Z")
Thx Bob! Before post I was learning with one more your vídeo about webhook. Thx so much. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/4/f/4f52c268dafa23484777017c2d0b641e889535b0.jpeg "NEW Glide WEBHOOK ACTION lets you send data ANYWHERE") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iayOIvW5Kp4) I’m gonna try your suggestion. I have to study and test :)))) ---
**Author:** ![Lisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f08c70/32.png) [@Lisa](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Lisa)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 1:25am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/invite-people-share-to-participate-what-u-suggest/25886/4 "2021-04-22T01:25:40Z")
Great app idea Alexandre! Another idea - which I’ve done often - is creating your own “share” button with the template column for sending text messages or emails. I’ve found most of the time, people share through those channels the most on mobile. **For creating an SMS link:** - Create a new ‘template’ or ‘construct URL’ column - use the following template: sms:[PHONENUMBER]&body=[MESSAGE]\*\*\* \*\*\*Note on the message: You would need to [encode the message](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP) **For email:** The process is similar with the template being: mailto:[EMAIL]?cc=[EMAIL2]&subject=[YOUR MESSAGE] More details on that [here](https://support.exclaimer.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360029340851-Adding-Cc-Bcc-Subject-and-Body-to-mailto-hyperlinks) If you’re interested in something similar for Whatsapp, you could also look into [their URL scheme](https://fvdm.com/code/note-whatsapp-url-scheme) which would work the same way (linking and opening directly in WhatsApp) with a custom message Hope this gave you some things to consider 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/invite-people-share-to-participate-what-u-suggest/25886/5 "2021-04-22T02:48:20Z")
That screenshot looks familiar 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Alexandre\_Caruso](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/alexandre_caruso/32/6240_2.png) [@Alexandre\_Caruso](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Alexandre_Caruso)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/invite-people-share-to-participate-what-u-suggest/25886/6 "2021-04-22T12:15:45Z")
Yeah! Darren! u and this community are awesome because helped me a lot on this crowdsourcing feature! Thx so much! Btw we’ve already paid **over $2k** it means people who don’t know each other pay their bills only for light, gas, or water. This is my project. ---
**Author:** ![Rosewebstudio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rosewebstudio/32/12261_2.png) [@Rosewebstudio](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Rosewebstudio)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/invite-people-share-to-participate-what-u-suggest/25886/7 "2021-04-22T13:24:04Z")
Great initiative, well done 👍 👏