Defining user relationships

You can define relationships between people to make following other users 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 and status messages.

You can create new relationships between users, or view or break existing relationships. Although they're simple to use, user relationships require consideration when managing them.

Creating relationships

To create a friend relationship:

1. In the Admin Console, go to People > Management > User Relationships.
2. Under Create a user relationship, enter the usernames of the people in the new relationship.

   You type the usernames or browse and search a list of users to add users.

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 can see a list of existing relationships.

   If necessary, you can filter the list to display only the relationships that include a particular user by entering the username in the Filter by Username box and clicking Filter.

3. To break a relationship, click Retire next to the relationship.