Help for the user dashboard and other functionality of the Community Site
- Click on the links below to get help for the different sections of the social networking component
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Home
Home shows Latest Members, Recent Activities of Conscious Living Community and Recent Group Activities.
Profile
Profile page is where your personal profile and your applications will be displayed. A User Profile picture can be displayed from your images and it will be automatically resized.
The top on the right side of the page display your profile details. You may edit it through the edit button. Under the Profile details, shows the status updates of your Friends and a button to list all your friends
Your profile name will display some details. Karma, Member since, Last online and Profile view(s). Below them, you may update your status, such as what are you currently up to, etc. This board will also update you with any incoming message or friend request.
Moving on, you will find four modules buttons. First is "invite friends" button to allow you invite friends to become Consciuos Living VIP Members from your contact email by keying in your friend email. Next are "Add Photos", "Add Apps" and "Start a Group" Button.
Other than the above, the Profile page also display other details. First is the update of the users latest activities. Continued with the list of applications that you have added on.
Karma is a user point-system used in Conscious Living. It shows how active you are in Conscious Living. Karma will only be activated when you have uploaded a picture in your user profile. Otherwise, you will forever have no Karma points. There are monthly prizes for most active members!
Under the groups tab, shows which groups you currently join. You will only be able to see the Groups if you have added the Groups application. Go to Application ---> Edit, and add the Groups application.
Shows images you have uploaded to your Profile. You will only see images if you have added the Photos application. Go to Application ---> Edit, and add the Photos application.
In Wall, you and your friends (at current time of writing, others too) are able to leave a comment on your Profile Page. You will only see the comments if you have added the Walls application. Go to Application ---> Edit, and add the Walls application.
Conscious Living's Wall supports Seyret. You can post YouTube videos by typing {youtube}...{/youtube}
Let's say the YouTube link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voYkKxSPkfw&feature=related
To paste the YouTube video on the Wall, you do this
{youtube}voYkKxSPkfw{/youtube}
In user profile custom fields, for those text field that represent a url link (e.g. Home Page), you can add the string 'http://' follow by your URL address, e.g. 'http://www.consciousliving.net.au. During value display in profile page, the string value will automatic converted to clickable hyperlink.
Application
There are many applications within the system. You can choose which application you would like to have on your account.
To see the list of applications, go to Application --> Browse
To edit it, go to Application --> Edit. Here, you will be able to:
1. find out what are these applications for
2. setting each of the application based on your preferences
3. set the arrangement of applications by dragging it (ctrl + drag up or down).
4. adjust the privacy setting of each application
5. remove the application that you do not want to use
Personal Messaging
Conscious Living Community personal messaging system allows you to send a message to any site members easily. There are 2 ways to send a message, via your own inbox or by clicking on user's profile and write a message.
Groups
You can join and participate in groups easily. Before you can post on the group wall or create a discussion, you will first need to become a member of the group. Click the "Join Now" to join your group.
To manage Group that you joined, go to Application --> Group.
Here, you can view the current groups, search a group as well as view groups that you have joined. You can also create a new group.
Announcement
Announcements lists all bulletins you with to make to the group. Announcements does not support replies. Only Group founder can Create Bulletin for Announcements.
Discussion
Discussion lists all discussions anyone posts in the groups. Discussions support replies from group members.
Wall
Wall supports Wall posts from members of a group. Wall also supports Syret (hence YouTube videos). Only Group founder can Remove Wall posts.
Photos & Media
To manage your photos, go to Application --> Media.
Here, you can upload new photos, browse them and create photo albums.
Entering Events
There is an Events Calender component (available from the Community menu) where you can list Not For Profit events. When you enter an event an email is sent to the moderator for approval. Please do not list commercial events in this section as this could lead to your loosing privileges on the site.
Forums
The forums can be used to share ideas or interact with other community members who are working on similar projects and have similar ideas to you. Please observe common courtesy when using the forums and communicate with people in a manner that you would expect for yourself.
Blogs
Your blog is kind of like a diary for viewing by your community friends. Within your blog you not only can have images, you can embed YOuTube movies.
To insert an image click on the images and documents link on the right of the text editor, browse to your file in the normal way and click upload, the system will then add your image to your blog's image folder and insert it into your text.
To embed a video, go to YouTube and copy the URL code of the movie you want to embed, then click on the embed video link on the right and paste the code in the field supplied.
