Defining User Relationships

You can define relationships between people to make following easier. The relationships you define are optionally visible in people's profiles. Using these relationships can help community users stay on top of what specific other people in the community are doing, including their changes to content, status messages, and so on.

Fastpath: Admin Console > People > Management > User Relationships

Although they're simple to use, user relationships require a little thought to manage well.

On the Admin Console's User Relationship Management page, you can create new relationships between users, or view or break (retire) existing relationships.

Creating Relationships

To create a friend relationship:
  1. In the Admin Console, go to People > Management > User Relationships.
  2. Enter the usernames of the people in the new relationship. If you can't remember the usernames, click the magnifying glass to browse and search a list of users; then, select the checkbox next to the one you want.
  3. Click Add to create the relationship.

Viewing and Breaking Existing Relationships

To view or break existing relationships:
  1. In the Admin Console, go to People > Management > User Relationships.
  2. At the bottom of the page, you'll see a list of existing relationships. You can filter the list to display only the relationships that include a particular person. (To do so, enter that person's username in the Filter by Username box, then click the Filter button.)
  3. To break a relationship, locate the relationship you want to break, then click its Retire button.