Editing Your Profile

Editing Your Profile

AVAILABLE TO: Administrators, Employees, and Customers

When you register for an account, a profile is created for you in the Pulse system. See Registering for a Pulse Account.

Registered Pulse users can edit their account profile by changing their personal information, uploading a profile image, and specifying notification settings.

How to Edit a Profile

1. Log into the Flare output using a registered Pulse account. See Logging In to Pulse.

2. Open the Settings page using one of these options:

   • Select the Community tab. Then click Edit My Profile.

     

   • In the topic toolbar, click .

3. You may be able to update the following information, depending the on the fields that have been included and made editable by the Pulse Administrator. See Configuring Profile Settings.

   • First Name The first name of the user.
   • Last Name The last name of the user.
   • Email Address A valid email address for the user.
   • Title A title for the user, such as a professional or job title.
   • Department A department name for the user, such as Engineering or Sales.
   • Location A location for the user, such as La Jolla or New York City.
   • Phone A telephone number for the user.
   • Cell A mobile phone number for the user.
   • Skills & Expertise Click Edit Skills if you want to associate yourself with any skills added by the Administrator. You can request new skills to be added by clicking I don't see my skill.
   • Experience Click Add Experience if you want to add any relevant experience, including your company name, title, time period, and a description.
   • Education Click Add Education if you want to add any relevant educational background, including your school name, dates attended, field of study, and a description.
   • Certification Click Add Certification if you want to add any relevant certifications, including your certificate name, year, and a description.
4. Click Save.

How to Change a Profile Image

1. In the Settings page, click Change Image.
2. In the dialog for your computer's operating system, navigate to the image that you want to upload. This uploads your image and it appears in the Crop Your Image dialog.
3. Adjust the boundaries. Then click Crop and Save.

How to Sign Up for Notifications

1. In the Settings page, select the Notifications tab.

2. Select any of these notifications.

   Option	Description
   Send me email	Sends you email when events related to you occur.
   Answers	Notifies you when people post answers to your questions.
   Comments	Notifies you when people comment on your posts.
   Likes	Notifies you when people like your posts.
   Follows	Notifies you when people follow you.
   Updates	Notifies you when people post updates on your feed.
   Mentions	Notifies you when people mention you in their posts.
   Asks	Notifies you when people ask you a question.
   Invites	Notifies you when people invite you to join Pulse system feeds.
   Daily Digest	Send you one daily digest email containing all account-related Pulse activity.
   Tasks	Notifies you when users assign you a task.
   Messages	Notifies you when people send you are direct message while you are not actively using Pulse.
   Skills & Expertise	Notifies you when changes are made to your skills and expertise.
   Post Approved	Notifies you if you are using the moderation feature and a new post has been approved by a moderator.
   Post Rejected	Notifies you if you are using the moderation feature and a new post has been rejected by a moderator.
   Post Pending Moderation	Notifies you if you are using the moderation feature and a new post is waiting for approval by a moderator.

3. Click Save.