From the My Account section of your profile, you can manage a number of important settings and preferences.
NOTE: If your community site has been configured to allow users to disable their own accounts, you will see the Disable My Account option, shown below. Select this option if you want to disable your Higher Logic account; doing so means you will no longer be able to log in. However, all of your contributed content will remain in the community, and you can reach out to a community representative to reenable your account at a later time, if needed..
Privacy Settings
While site staff set the default privacy settings for your profile information, you can update them to self-manage what personal information is visible to whom.
Reference the numbers to the image below:
- Toggle this option to YES to be included in the Member Directory and Community Rosters.
If set to NO, your record will not be included in other members' searches in the Member Directory and Community Rosters. - Use these settings to manage each of your profile fields individually to control who the field is visible to.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| My Contacts | Personal information in your profile is visible to you and your Contacts. |
| Members Only | Personal information in your profile is visible to you and other members of this Community (i.e., have an account and are logged in). |
| Public | Personal information in your profile is visible to everyone, even people who aren't members of your Higher Logic Community.
NOTE: Your profile information will be returned in searches on external search engines. |
| Only Me (Nobody) |
Personal information in your profile is visible to only you.
NOTE: In the Send Message and Add as Contact settings, this option displays as Nobody; the functionality is identical. Refer to Nobody option notes, below, for additional information. |
NOTE: Super Admins can set default profile privacy settings on the Admin > Users > Profile > Privacy Defaults page. See Default Privacy Settings for more information.
Nobody option notes
The following are expected behaviors when Send Message = Nobody:
- The Reply option does not display for the recipient in the message's options.
- As the sender, you are not alerted to the fact that message recipients cannot reply to your message.
To make it possible for your recipients to reply to your message, you must change this setting to either of the following.
- Members Only
- My Contacts
Email Preferences
In addition to user messages and general notifications, you may also routinely receive email messages originating from the following categories:
- System Emails - Emails required to confirm user participation. You cannot opt-out of these emails.
- Community Emails - Emails typically sent from Community Admins via Automation Rules. By default, you receive Community emails from all communities to which you belong, unless you explicitly opt-out.
- Participation Emails - Emails reflecting one-on-one interactions (e.g., reply to sender, contact requests, @mentions, real-time notifications).
- Promotional Emails - Emails that promote a purchase (e.g., the purchase of a book of an annual conference speaker).
- Smart Newsletter - Smart Newsletter is a periodic email that contains highly personalized content from the community and other sources. See Smart Newsletter to learn more.
If you want to opt-out of receiving messages from any of these categories, except for System (which is required because it includes important messages like password change notifications, event registrations, etc.), simply toggle their associated category to NO.
NOTE: You will always receive these messages in your account profile inbox, regardless of these settings: Opting-out only controls whether a category's associated messages are sent to your listed email address.
In addition, you can:
- Click Change to update where these emails are delivered (by default, it's the email address you entered when creating your account),
- Click Manage Opt-out List to manage which communities you don't want to receive any emails from. Note that this refers generally to messages from Community Admins and/or community managers via Automation Rules and personal outreach; opting in or out of community Discussion notifications is controlled on the Community Notifications page.
NOTE: This page also indicates if there's a block on your email address; if so, an interface will be available you can use to potentially resolve the underlying issues and remove the block.
RSS Feeds
Here, you can enable RSS feeds for any desired content, including Discussions, Libraries, News, and the Glossary. To do so, simply select the desired tab and follow the prompts to receive RSS content from specific Discussions, Libraries, etc.
Your personal RSS Feed link is provided for you at the bottom of the page, which you can copy and paste into the Feed Reader of your choice.
NOTE: Before you can use RSS feeds, you must download a news reader or configure your browser or email application. Here is a list of free RSS readers.
Community Notifications
On this page, you can manage the community notification settings for each of your community subscriptions, establish notification overrides, and manage which communities are included in your Daily and Weekly Consolidated Digests.
See Manage Your Community Notifications to learn more about how to manage these notifications.
Discussion Signature
Here, you can use the available variables to create your default Discussion signature that will be added to the bottom of each of your Discussion posts. To do so, click the desired variables on the right to add them on the left.
If you make any changes, click Save at the bottom to apply them. You can also click Use Default Template to use your site's template signature.
NOTE: Variables are added in the order they're clicked, so you may have to delete some and try again to achieve the desired order.