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==Overview==
 
==Overview==
One of the most basic purpose of social network is adding friends. JomSocial allows everyone to easily add the friends from multiple places on the site, however, every add action should be mutual, and approved by the added person before two become friends on site.
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One of the most basic purposes of a social network is adding friends. JomSocial allows everyone to easily add friends from multiple locations on the site; however, every '''add''' action should be mutual, and approved by the added person before the two become friends on site.
  
 
==Adding from profile page==
 
==Adding from profile page==

Revision as of 09:08, 8 March 2013

Overview

One of the most basic purposes of a social network is adding friends. JomSocial allows everyone to easily add friends from multiple locations on the site; however, every add action should be mutual, and approved by the added person before the two become friends on site.

Adding from profile page

Most common way to add friend is to visit their profile page and find the Add as Friend button
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If user set the Profile Privacy to be Friends you will see the page like this
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Either way, clicking on the Add as Friend button, the new popup will show up. In this popup, there will be a text field in which you can write some custom message. This message is by default set to Hi I'd like to add you as friend and will be sent as a custom message if user don't change it. There are also option to finally add the friend, or cancel entire process.
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Clicking on Add Friend button will finalize the process of adding the user as friend, but since this feature requires the approval of the added person, you wont become friends till the request is approved.
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Click on close, and if cron jobs are properly set the email notification will be sent to added user as well as onsite friend notification too.

Adding from other pages

JomSocial does not restrict user to add friends only from profile page. This feature works site wide, basically wherever you find a user list, you will find the option to add friends too. Therefore, you can see this option on all members listing pages, event and group members listings etc....

Approving the Friend request

The most easiest way to approve (or decline for that matter) friend request is to click on the New friend requests notification icon from toolbar
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Popup with last 5 pending friend requests will show up. You can approve or decline the friend request directly from this window or, if there's plenty of new friend requests, you can click on Show All button that will lead you to a Pending my Approval page that is also accessible through toolbar navigation from Friends menu
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In any case, clicking on Approve button will finalize the friendship request flow and two will become friends on site.