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Manage Users
This article describes how to manage your user records via the Manage Users page to accomplish the following: Search for users Manage the list page's columns (add, remove, sort) to view and access user records Filter the list of users Edit user accounts Export the list of user records 📝 NOTE: Creating, deleting, and…
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Member Search
Higher Logic Vanilla's (Vanilla) latest search experience, Elastic Search, features a Members search feature. In this article, we'll focus on this aspect of your community search so you can learn how to easily find other members. Before we begin... Vanilla's Elastic Search was implemented in Spring 2021; it improves the…
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Private Profiles
All users can mark their profiles as private in order to restrict profile access to authorized users such as community managers and Administrators. Make your profile private 1. Click the MeBox, followed by Account & Privacy Settings. 2. In the Privacy section, make sure the Display my profile publicly box is unchecked. 📝…
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Retrieve User Data
In this article, we'll cover the three ways you can retrieve user data in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. The method you use depends on what data you want. Request a user profile data export You can send an email message to Vanilla Support and request that they pull an export of user profile data and send it…
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Role Applications
You can configure specific Roles so that users can request "membership" to them through an application form. Community managers can view and manage (approve or deny) these applications from the Dashboard. 📝 NOTES This feature requires a "Feature Flag" in the config. If you're on the cloud-hosted version of Higher Logic…
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Role Titles
Many organizations want to identify a user's position in the community. Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) allows you to add visual "flair" to the content that users post to indicate their Role and/or Rank in your community. This is achieved via their associated addons: Role Titles Ranks This article focuses on the Role Titles…
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Roles & Permissions
Two of the most important aspects of your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community are Roles and Permissions: Roles are like high-level categories into which your users are grouped. Each Role can be customized with a unique set of Permissions to control what users with that Role can see and do in your community. 📝 NOTE:…
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Spoofing Users in Vanilla
In Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla), spoofing allows Admin-level users to "impersonate" other users in order to experience the Vanilla community as that user would. This is beneficial for troubleshooting an issue or a strange behavior that might arise for non-Admin users, but which Admins don't experience due to their…
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User Cards
User Cards are a convenience feature that let users see a preview of a user's profile without needing to navigate to their profile. ⚠️ IMPORTANT: User Cards are available, by default, for our Knowledge Base and Foundation-based themes. Users must also have the View > Profile permission to see User Cards. User Cards…