Add Friends

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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 the Profile Page

The most common way to add a friend is to visit his/her profile page and find the Add as friend button.

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If the user set the Profile Privacy to be Friends you will see the page like this:

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Either way, after clicking Add as Friend, a new popup will show up. In this popup, there will be a text field in which you can write a 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 doesn't change it. There are also options to confirm adding the friend or cancel entire process.

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Clicking Add Friend will finalize the process of adding the user as a friend; however, since this feature requires the approval of the person being added, the user won't become friends until the request is approved by the recipient of the friend request.

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Click Close and if the cron jobs are properly set, the email notification will be sent to the added user as well as create an onsite friend request notification.

Adding from Other Pages

JomSocial does not restrict users to adding friends only from Profile Page. This feature works site-wide; basically, wherever there is a user list, there will be an option to add friends, too. Therefore, you can see this option on all User, Event, and Group Member lists 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.