You can define relationships between people to make following them easier. The relationships you define are optionally
visible in people's profiles. Using these relationships can help community users stay on top of what
specific other people in the community are doing, including their changes to content, status
messages, and so on.
Fastpath: Admin Console: People > Management > User Relationships
Fastpath: Admin Console: People > Management > Org Chart
Although they're simple to use, user relationships require a little thought to manage
well.
On the Admin Console's User Relationship Management page, you can view existing
relationships and create or retire (break) relationships. Here, a "relationship graph"
is the kind of relationship you're creating or retiring.
Viewing and Breaking Relationships
The page lists existing relationships. You can browse and filter the list to locate
the one you want to break.
- In the Admin Console, go to the User Relationship Management page or the Org Chart page.
- View the list of relationships at the bottom of the page. You can filter the
list to display only the relationships that include a particular person. To
do so, enter that person's username in the Filter by Username box, then
click the Filter button.
- To break a relationship, locate the relationship you want to break, then
click its Retire button.
Creating Relationships
- Navigate to Admin Console: People > Management > User
Relationships to create a friend relationship or Admin Console: People > Management > Org Chart to create an org chart relationship.
- Enter the usernames of the people in the new relationship. If you can't
remember the username, click User Picker to browse and search a list
of users, selecting the check box next to the one you want.
- Click Add to create the relationship.
Note: If your community draws data about people from an external data source such as LDAP or
Active Directory server, then organizational relationships might already be
defined.