Manage User Networking Site
When you add a User Networking Manager part to a page on your website, user networking members can use your user networking site to create accounts and manage their profile information. The user networking site provides a central location for user networking members to manage their online relationships and send messages to one another. To allow members to navigate between user networking tasks, a user networking account contains multiple tabs. The tabs that appear on the user networking site depend on the features you enable on the User Networking Manager part. In addition, you can add custom tabs to the User Networking Manager part to display additional information to user networking members. For example, to display images on the user networking site, you can create a tab and add a Slideshow part.
Note: When you design the User Networking Manager part, you can adjust the display names of the fields and tabs that appear on your user networking site. This section uses the default captions generated by the User Networking Manager part. For information about how to change the captions, see User Networking Manager.
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Home — If you select Enable Home on the User Networking Manager part, the Home tab appears. By default, the Home tab appears first when members log in to your user networking site. When you design the User Networking Manager part, you can select a part to appear on the Home tab. For example, you can create and select a Profile Display part that welcomes the member to the site and includes targeted links and user networking information specific to the member. |
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Messages — The Messages tab contains the member’s inbox. From this tab, members can compose and send messages to and receive messages from other user networking members in their contact lists. Members can also organize and delete messages in the inbox. When you design the User Networking Manager part, you specify how many messages appear on a page of the inbox and whether the program automatically refreshes the inbox. |
Note: By default, if you do not select Enable Home, the Messages tab appears first when members log in to the user networking site.
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Friends — The Friends tab contains the list of the member’s friends on the user networking site. From this tab, the member can search for other members, send friend requests, and approve or deny friend requests from other members. Group owners and group administrators on your user networking site can send invitations to the group from the Friends tab. When you design the User Networking Manager part, you specify how many friends appear on a page of the contact list and whether you rank members based on the number of friends in contact lists. |
Note: When a user blocks another member, the program does not deliver messages or friend requests sent to the user by the blocked member. When a user removes a member from the Friends list, the removed member can continue to view the user’s profile, and the user can continue to receive friend requests from the removed member.
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Groups — If you select Enable Groups on the User Networking Manager part, the Groups tab appears. The Groups tab contains the list of the member’s user networking groups. From this tab, the member can search for user networking groups and approve or deny invitations received. From this tab, group owners and group administrators can also manage their groups, such as to promote, demote, or remove existing members. When you design the User Networking Manager part, you specify how many groups appear on a page of the list and how groups appear by default on your site. You can also select the users who can create groups and the attribute to assign to constituents who create groups. |
Note: When a group owner promotes a member of the group, the promoted member becomes a user networking group administrator. For information about user networking group administrators, see User Networking Group Administrator.
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Photos — If you select Enable Photos on the User Networking Manager part, the Photos tab appears. The Photos tab contains albums with a member’s uploaded photos. From this tab, the member can upload multiple photos and organize them into albums. The member can also use these uploaded photos to edit the profile image. |
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The member selects security settings for each album to determine who can view the photos in the albums. The member can make the photos viewable by everyone, friends only, or the member only (private). Album security applies to all areas on the website where the photos appear, including slideshows, personal pages, Fundraiser personal pages, and profile displays. |
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Preferences — If you select Enable Preferences on the User Networking Manager part, the Preferences part appears. On this tab, members can adjust user networking information, such as the display name, email forwarding address, or online status. A member can also create a friendly URL to the profile page. When you design the User Networking Manager part, you select whether to generate a profile update transaction when a member edits email forwarding address. |
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Administration — By default, all users with Supervisor rights can access the Administrator account to act as administrators on your user networking site. When you design the User Networking Manager part, you can specify other roles in Roles to access the Administrator account to act as user networking administrators. If you select Enable Administration, the Administration tab appears for users in roles that can access the Administrator account. From this tab, user networking administrators can manage interactions on your site. For more information about the user networking administrator, see User Networking Administrator. |
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My Page — The My Page tab provides a link to the user networking member’s profile page. When you design the User Networking Manager part, you select the profile page. The page must include a Profile Display part. On the Profile Display part, you can add merge fields to display information specific to the member, such as the profile image, unread messages count, and ranking. To access the profile page, user networking members select the My Page tab. |
Tip: For an enhanced user networking experience, you can include additional parts on the profile page. With a User Link Module part, members can perform multiple user networking actions, such as approve a friend and block a user, from profile pages. Similarly, with a My Friends part, users who visit a member’s profile page can quickly view friends and groups associated with the member, as well as any mutual friends or groups. For information about these parts, see User Networking Parts.