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The profile screen in the default theme normally consists of a single main
pane, with an additional menu to the left to lead you through the editing
options for your own profile. Please note that, because an SMF forum may be
customized extensively by its administrator(s), the features and user
permissions described here are typical rather than definitive.
To edit your own profile, start by selecting Profile from
the
main menu or clicking your own username. You can also view (but not edit)
other members' profiles by clicking on their names.
- Information Normally Available to all Members
- Profile Info
- Settings Normally Available to Profile Owners
- Modify Profile
- Actions
- Settings Normally Restricted to Admins
- Profile Info
- Modify Profile
- Actions
Information Normally Available to all Members
Profile Info
- This Summary screen is not only there to tell you about
others, but also the first screen that you see when
editing your own profile.
- Members may choose to hide their email address and/or
online status.
- The fields left empty here are not filled in by default, so you should
edit your profile if you wish to display this
information.
- You can send the profile owner a
Personal Message by clicking the Current Status
On/Offline Icon or following the link from Additional
Information below.
- Show the last posts of this person links to a complete
paginated listing of the member's posts.
- Show general statistics for this member links to a
screen of statistics about the member's time online and posting activity.
Settings Normally Available to Profile Owners
While the Summary screen is the same as the one shown above
and the Show Posts and Show Stats links are
effectively duplicates, profile owners are also provided with the tools to
customize their own profiles:
Modify Profile
- Account Related Settings enables you to make changes to
your display name (your login or
username can only be changed by an administrator), preferred
language (if the forum administrators have installed
alternative language packs), email and password
settings.
- Forum Profile Information enables you to enter optional
personal details such as gender, birthdate,
location, website and instant
messenger contact information. It's also where you go to enter your
own personal text and signature and select
an avatar (personal picture) from a list (if provided by
the forum administrators) or link to one of your own on the web.
- Look and Layout Preferences enables you to select your
preferred theme (forum skin), time zone and format and
other personal choices for layout settings. Note that the
currently selected option in the menu pane is highlighted in bold type:
- Notifications and Email enables you to select personal
preferences for notifications (emails about new
topics/replies) and lists any notifications that you have set up.
- Personal Message Options enables you to set up an
ignore list (blacklist) for
Personal Messages, to request notification of new PMs
by email and to save copies of your outgoing PMs by
default.
Actions
- Delete this account does exactly what it says! Yes,
there's a confirmation screen, but it really does
delete your own account, so be careful...
Settings Normally Restricted to Admins
As well as being able to view/edit any of the details above from other
members' profiles, some further options are normally visible to (and executable
by) admins only:
Profile Info
- Track User provides a list of IP
numbers used by the member, other members who might be in
the same IP range and error messages
generated/experienced by the member.
- Track IP provides tools for tracking
members, messages and errors
from any specified IP range.
- Show Permissions lists the board
permissions that have been granted to the member and who
gave them.
Modify Profile
- Account Related Settings is basically the same
screen as shown to profile owners, but with the additional option to
assign members to member groups.
- Forum Profile Information is basically the same
screen as shown to profile owners, but with the additional option to
specify custom titles for members.
Actions
- Ban this user provides tools for
banning users, configuring the level of
the ban and maintaining a ban list noting the
details of any bans in force.
- Delete this account is similar to the screen of
the same name available to all members, but the confirmation
question is different when it's not your own account that's
about to be deleted.
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