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Member Preferences and Features

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8 steps in this guide

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   Editing your profile

   Profiles can form a key part of your community. Each member of your site will have one that can be viewed by other members (should they have permission to do so) and can be customised to the members liking. A members content and other important information relating a member can be found in this area. Editing your profile information To get to your profile you can select your name at the top of the page and select...
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   Sending/Receiving messages

   Sending messages between members in IPS4 is a simple but powerful tool you can use to communicate with your members (or they can communicate with each other) away from your community.  When receiving a message, you will see a number appear next to your inbox icon showing the number of unread messages that you have. This would be similar to the image below.   Sending and receiving messages ...
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   Managing followed content

   With all the content that you can follow in the IPS community suite, it is important that you can manage this easily and in one place. You can manage your followed content in this way by selecting your name in the top right, then selecting "Manage Followed Content" When clicking on this option, you will be presented with the following screen. You will notice that you can filter through different types of content using the...
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    Viewing Attachments

   Within the IPS4 Community suite, you will be adding attachments within posts, blogs, and many more areas. By clicking on your name and selecting "My Attachments" you can view a list of these. This will let you know where these documents are attached if you need to find then and you can also download these direct from the page.   Within the admin CP, you also have a similar area for all files that have been...
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    Reputation & Other Profile Settings

   Reputation & likes are an important part of communities across the internet, and your IPS Community Suite gives you the tools to set these up in a way which is good for your own community. If you visit Members>Member settings>Reputation you will be presented with a screen similar to the screenshot below. From here you can set up the way in which you would like reputation on your site to work, whether this is with likes...
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    Custom Profile Fields

   In any community there will always be information you want to capture about your members which is not provided within the core product. In IPS Community Suite you can set up as many of these as you like, and group them accordingly. If you visit the following location within your admin CP you will be presented with the following screen for setting up these fields. Setting up profile fields Clicking on the Create New button in the...
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   Account settings

   By selecting your name and then notification settings on the front end of your site, your users will be presented with a screen similar to the below where they can change various settings related to their account as seen and illustrated in the image below.   Overview On the overview page you will see the accounts you are connected to such as facebook, google+ and more, along with links to the other settings in which you...
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    User Ranks

   Ranks are titles and images which can be applied to a member upon reaching a set number of content items on your site. These will show up withi the posts of a member. You can set these up from the following area within your admin CP: Members>Member Settings>Ranks Once you...