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    HiveLive Lesson posted 5/29/07 by Jeremy, last edited 8/19/09 by Sean Bell
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    People (and their information) are the reason the LiveConnect platform exists. All content within a LiveConnect powered community is created and owned by its Members.

    All Members in a LiveConnect Community have a display name, an associated avatar and a rich profile that may include: video, images, text areas and much more. Each Member has a "home page" that shows his or her personal profile and a record of his contributions to the community - which Applications, Types, Posts, Groups, and Comments are his.

    The structure of a member's profile is defined by the Community Administrator. Example profile fields include: Name, Address, Phone Number, Email Address, Company, Title, Instant Message ID, Photo, T-shirt Size, vCard Attachment, Favorite Movie. Each Member can permission individual profile fields to the appropriate audience (wwww public, community, network, private).

    A sample member profile. Note the permission icons on each field.

    Members can belong to an infinite number of Groups. If empowered to do so they may create and manage Groups and/or Applications either from a curated template or on a custom ad hoc basis. Members can be individually permissioned to view and/or post new information in specific Applications, or can be permissioned to the Application as part of a Group.

    Some LiveConnect powered communities allow Guests to browse appropriately permissioned content within the community. Guests are anonymous and do not have a personal profile, cannot post or comment in the community, and can view only the content that has been explicitly made available to non-members.

    See a list of Members in this Community, or see your own network.

    Below: a sampling of user images

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    • posted 4/5/08 by Patricia Seybold
      What about showing all of a person's posts and/or comments/contributions linked to their profile?? Kind of like a myspace page.. where they (or others) could view a summary of their activity or jump directly to their comments.. Seems like it would be pretty easy to do by combining the sort by author view but just linking in all the posts across hives for that particular author...

      hmm.. maybe some permissioning issues (e.g. I don't belong to a group that is entitled to SEE that hive...

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    • posted 4/6/08 by Jeremy
      We actually do this already - just click on my picture to the left to view my profile. There is a set of tabs across the top, including "Hives" (hives I own), "Posts" (posts I've authored), "Comments" (comments I've made), etc. All of these lists are permissioned, so though I own somewhere near 50 Hives in this community, you are likely to see a dramatically shorter list.

      The tabs themselves are permissioned, as well. I can choose to display or hide my Network (friends), for instance, and you may not see my Types tab depending on your own ability to create or manage Types.

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    • posted 4/13/08 by Patricia Seybold
      I want to change the view of the "Peoples' "hive" on my site...
      I would like the summary/titles view to include more info--e.g. perhaps a table with certain fields listed..

      If I click on the "people" tab on my site, I don't see any admin functions that would enable me to create a view/panel/for that section of the site..

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    • posted 4/14/08 by John Kembel
      I don't believe that a community's People page (e.g., http://community-URL/people) is currently customizeable.  You could, however, create a new page (under Manage Community > Customize Pages) to custom-panel a new type of people page, though you would be limited to viewing lists of people with standard views, not custom views.

      Being able to customize more pages within the community would be great, as would being able to define custom views for information beyond title/summary/clip/cloud/grid/full, etc...

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    • posted 4/14/08 by Patricia Seybold
      Yes, Maybe I CAN do it that way... One thing I find really annoying is the lack of persistence for my views.. particularly on the People page.. I like to look at Members in the most collapsed view.. (titles) sorted Alphabetically (of course, it's sorting by first name, because silly us.. our current profiles don't have first name/last name.. I need to fix that!).. but when I return to the people/members page, the view is switched to a random view (most active at the top??).. Why not assume that if someone changes a view they actually may want that to persist???

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    • posted 4/15/08 by Jeremy
      The lack of view persistence annoys me at times, too. Just to clarify - are you interested in the application remembering your choices as an end-user, or would you like to have more control over default view sets as a community builder/admin?

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