Profile Pages

User profiles can be accessed from several different contexts, but are always available to end users as a series of portlets accessible through My Account | View User Profile. For more information on user profiles, refer to About User Profiles.

This page allows you to define the user profile pages used to display user profiles. By default, the user profile pages consist of a single page populated with three user profile portlets—General Information, Folder Expertise, and Managed Communities. Administrators can add additional portlets and pages and can change the community template used for the user profile pages to enhance the user experience.

You can perform the following actions on this page:

• Changing the Community Template

• Ordering Profile Pages

• Adding a Profile Page

• Deleting a Profile Page

• Editing a Profile Page

Changing the Community Template

The community template determines a set of required pages and—if configured—enforces a header and a footer.

To change the community template:

1. In the Community Templates section, click Change Community Template. This displays the Community Templates dialog box.
   
   Note: Before changing the template, read the important notes below.

2. Select a template and click OK.

3. If you do not want the profile pages to inherit future changes to the template, clear the box next to Inherit the Template.
   
   If you select to inherit changes, any change applied to the community template affects the profile pages. For example, if a page is removed from the community template, the page will be removed from the profiles as well.  Additionally, if you inherit changes, you cannot delete pages associated with the template, but you can add new pages and change the order of the pages.

4. Click OK.

Important: When changing the community template, note the following:

• Any pages from the old community template that are not part of the new community template will be removed.

• If you have set special headers and footers for the profile pages, switching to a community template that enforces a header or footer will remove your header or footer.

Ordering Profile Pages

The order in which pages are displayed in the Profile Pages list is the order in which the page links will display to users.

• To move a page to the top of this list, click .
• To move a page up one space in this list, click .
• To move a page down one space in this list, click .

• To move a page to the bottom of this list, click .

Adding a Profile Page

When you create a new page, you must choose a page template. This page template determines the default page name, a set of required portlets, and the page layout.

To add a profile page:

1. In the Profile Pages section, click New Page.

2. Select a page template and click OK.

3. If you do not want this page to inherit future changes to the page template, clear the box next to Inherit the Template.
   
   If you select to inherit changes, any change applied to the page template affects this page as well. For example, if a portlet is removed from the page template, the portlet will be removed from this page as well. Additionally, if you inherit changes, you cannot delete or rearrange portlets associated with the page template, or change the page layout, but you can add portlets to the page.

4. Click OK.

Deleting a Profile Page

You can delete any page that says No in the From Community Template column. If you chose to inherit changes from the community template, pages that are part of that template say Yes in the From Community Template column and cannot be deleted.

• To delete a profile page, select the page and click .

Editing a Profile Page

Depending on whether you are inheriting changes, you can change the page name, add portlets, delete portlets, rearrange portlets, change the page layout, and set page security by clicking the name of the page. For more information, click here.

• To display the page associated with this help:

1. Click Administration.
2. In the Select Utility drop-down list, click User Profile Manager.