| Managing User Accounts and User Groups / Configuring User Profiles | |
You can let people control who sees their profile information in the community, as well as provide them with other customizations, or you can set this information for them. For example, you can enable users to change who sees their name and email address, or you can select a group of users who will see their name and email address.
The User Profile Fields and Other Options sections of the Profile Setting page enable you to fine-tune certain profile settings, including who can see essential fields by default. You can also set whether to show the user's full name, allow profile images or enable skills and endorsements. For information on customizing the user's profile fields using the Header Profile Fields and Other Profile Fields sections, see Configuring User Profile Templates.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Name Visibility | Select Users may edit the visibility for their name to let users set whether their name should be visible to others in the community. You can also set who sees the name by default. |
| Profile Image Visibility | Select Users may edit the visibility for their profile image(s) to let users set who can view their profile image. You can also set who sees the profile image by default. |
| Creation Date Visibility | Select Users may edit the visibility for their creation date to let users set who can view their profile creation date (Users may see a "Member Since" date). You can also set who sees the creation date by default. |
| Last Login Date Visibility | Select Users may edit the visibility for their last login date to let users set who can view their last login date. You can also set who sees the last login date by default. |
| Allow Profile Images | Set to "Yes" to allow people to display an image (such as of themselves) on their user profile. You can also set the maximum number of profile images users can upload. |
| Show Full Name by Default | Set to "Yes" to have a person's full name displayed on their profile, as opposed to merely their user name. In some communities, such as some that are visible to the public, people would prefer not to have their full name displayed. In the Name Visibility field, you can allow users to customize the visibility of their name. |
| Skills and Endorsements | Select whether you want to enable both skills and endorsements, or disable both. You can also only enable skills and not endorsements. Skills are how users tag their own profile and endorsements are the tags others give users. |