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When users register an account on your site, a profile page is automatically created. This tutorial shows you how to link a profile page...
Linking to User Profiles
The easiest and quickest way to link to a user's profile page is to enclose their user name in square brackets as shown below:[~gfraser]
That squiggle before the user name, called a "tilde", indicates that the link should go to a user profile.
The result: Guy Fraser
As you can see, the user's full name is displayed along with a little icon to make it obvious that it's a user profile link.
As with any link, you can easily add your own title and a tooltip if desired:
[Guy's Profile|~gfraser] [Guy's Profile|~gfraser|More about me...]
Hints and Tips
Wherever possible, use the basic form of the link - should the user's full name be changed, it will automatically update the on-screen text used for the link.
Comments (13)
Aug 02, 2006
Anonymous says:
It's not very useful to have to put in an exact user's username to use this. Is...It's not very useful to have to put in an exact user's username to use this.
Is there a way to represent the current user, such as with
or @user or something like that?
Thanks,
Charlie
ETR Associates
Aug 02, 2006
Guy Fraser says:
We're already working on something like this for a community portal project we'v...We're already working on something like this for a community portal project we've been developing - once it's done, I'll see if we can extract the bit that does this and package it in to a macro.
Aug 03, 2006
Anonymous says:
That would be most helpful. Thx, CharlieThat would be most helpful.
Thx,
Charlie
Jan 04, 2008
Simon Wheatley says:
Did the macro to print the current user's name make it out separately from Bubbl...Did the macro to print the current user's name make it out separately from Bubbles?
Jan 30, 2008
Guy Fraser says:
Theme Builder: use the menulink macro or compound-menuitem macro with the %u...Theme Builder: use the menulink macro or compound-menuitem macro with the %user% token for the profile location (and also user space IIRC).
Community Bubbles: use the my-picture macro.
Jan 04, 2008
Simon Wheatley says:
So it's not possible to print the name without a link, using Theme Builder?So it's not possible to print the name without a link, using Theme Builder?
Aug 31, 2006
Anonymous says:
Hi, It would be great if you can display the user's image(picture, etc) beside...Hi,
It would be great if you can display the user's image(picture, etc) besides the name.
There is no way to do that currently, is there?
Mircea
Aug 31, 2006
Guy Fraser says:
We're already working on that Keep an eye on our newsroom for something called ...We're already working on that
Keep an eye on our newsroom for something called "Bubbles"
Oct 11, 2006
Anonymous says:
Hi, Is there a way to display a list of all users group by their group with a l...Hi,
Is there a way to display a list of all users group by their group with a link on their username to their Profile ?
Oct 11, 2006
Guy Fraser says:
Yes, you can use the userlister macro or, when Bubbles is released next year, us...Yes, you can use the userlister macro or, when Bubbles is released next year, use the "users" macro.
Oct 12, 2006
Anonymous says:
THanks, it's a useful macro. But do you know if i can specify the number of colu...THanks, it's a useful macro. But do you know if i can specify the number of columns i wish to have, and specify maximum users per column ?
OR, Where can i find the source code of this macro ?
Oct 12, 2006
Guy Fraser says:
It's part of Confluence (I think) so you'd have to download the Confluence sourc...It's part of Confluence (I think) so you'd have to download the Confluence source code and search through that.
May 23, 2008
Sriram Sampath says:
hi, im trying to add a line that goes like Welcome <username's first and l...hi, im trying to add a line that goes like
Welcome <username's first and last name>
is there any way i can do this?
i tried:
Welcome
i know this is wrong..plz help
thanks