Editing Your Users Profile
How to Edit a User Profile on Capacity4dev
In this section, we will walk you through the process of editing your user profile on our platform. Keeping your profile up to date ensures that you can effectively engage with other community members, stay informed about relevant content, and contribute to ongoing discussions.
Follow these simple steps to edit your user profile:
- Step: Log in to your account
- Step: Access your user profile
- Step: Edit your user profile
- Step: Save your changes
Detailed steps
Step 1: Log in to your account
Step 2: Access your user profile
- Once logged in, click on the “My Profile” link located at the top of each page.
- From the dropdown menu, select "My Profile" to view your personal profile page.
Step 3: Edit your user profile
On your profile page, click the "My Settings" button located next to your profile picture.
This will take you to the page, where you can update various sections of your profile, including:
- Profile Picture: Click on "Choose file" to upload a new profile picture from your computer or use the "Remove" button to delete and change your current profile picture.
- Personal Information: Modify your job title, organisation, department, organisation type, country, and languages (some of these fields are disabled to modify for EU Institutions Offcials as they are filled out automatically)
- About Me: Write a brief description of your education, your professional background, your expertise, and your skills, to help other community members get to know you better.
- Interests: Your interests will be used to help you filter platform activity based on your specific thematic and geographic interests. This setting is important as it sets your algorithm for personalised feed on your homepage.
- Notification: notifications keep you informed about the latest updates and activities relevant to your interests. You'll receive immediate/weekly/monthly alerts for new content, comments, and other interactions within your Groups/Projects/Resources, ensuring you never miss out on essential information and collaboration opportunities. Customize your notification settings to get the right balance of updates tailored to your preferences.
TIP: include your LinkedIn profile for additional networking possibilities!
- After updating your profile, scroll down to the bottom of the "My Settings" page and click the "Save changes" button.
- You will be redirected to your profile page, where you can review your updated information.
Editing your user profile on Capacity4dev is a simple and efficient way to ensure that your personal and professional information is up to date. By maintaining an accurate profile, you can facilitate collaboration opportunities, contribute effectively to discussions, and benefit from tailored content recommendations. If you have any further questions or need additional support, please feel free to reach out to our support team at support@capacity4dev.eu.
FAQ
The Capacity4dev is a collaborative platform and members have functions and features to collaborate on our platform by using a contact form or chat. No e-mail addresses are disclosed to our community as all communication is happening through the system. To allow other Capacity4dev members to contact you, please check the box in "My Settings" page:
You can easily set this up on "My Setting" page, when you choose the value "Never" for notifications. Our recommendation, however, is to set it “Weekly”, so you can continue to stay informed about recent posts.
Sometimes, we also send emails to different categories of our users, such as Space Managers or users with specific statuses, to update them about current developments. If you are not interested in receiving these important messages, please reconsider the Group Ownership or Administration as Capacity4dev is a collaborative platform and one of the responsibilities of the Group Owner or Administrator is to keep their space active and up-to-date following the latest development.
This is possible by scrolling down in "My Settings" page, and click on "Delete Account." NOTE: If you delete your profile, you will not be able to reactivate it again!
