By adding the Contacts Center and Activities widgets to users’ private Dashboards, administrators can let users form social connections. The Contacts Center widget lets users form these connection types:
- Connection: A two-way relationship formed by a user accepting a connection request from another user. The Activities widget on each user’s private Dashboard displays the activities of the other user.
- Following: A one-way relationship in which one user follows another user. The followed user’s activities appear in the Activities widget on the follower’s private Dashboard.
To ensure that all users have a page on their private Dashboard that contains
the Contacts Center and Activities widgets, you can create a user group and then
create a page via a Site Template. For instructions on this, see the
user groups documentation.
The widgets are in Add () → Widgets
→ Social.
Figure 1: The Contacts Center widget lets users make connections.
When you select a user in the Contacts Center, these buttons appear across the top of the widget:
Connect: Send a connection request to the user.
Disconnect: Disconnect from the user.
Follow: Follow the user.
Unfollow: Stop following the user.
Block: Block the user. Blocking a user only prevents that user from following you or adding you as a connection. A blocked user can still send messages to and view the public profile information of the blocking user.
Unblock: Stop blocking the user.
vCard: Export the user’s vCard and save it as a VCF file. vCard is a file format standard for electronic business cards.
When you send a connection request, the user is notified and can confirm or ignore the request.
Figure 2: Users get a notification that lets them respond to connection requests.