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Overview of social features in Nimble

Contents

  1. 1 User Profiles
    1. 1.1 Personal Information
    2. 1.2 Contact Information
    3. 1.3 Photo / Gravatar
    4. 1.4 Status information
  2. 2 Mini User Profiles
We're still only in the early stages of supporting social integration into the core of Nimble, however what is there today is a good starting point.

User Profiles

The obvious social feature currently available in Nimble is user profile support. Several key components make up the profile implementation

Personal Information

Users are able to provide the following personal details
  • Full Name
  • Nickname
  • A short bio
  • Date of Birth
  • Gender
Host applications can in turn consume this information to customize presentation and options available to the user

Contact Information

Users are able to provide the following contact information
  • Email address (changes must be confirmed using Nimble email verification system)
  • Multiple phone numbers for home, business, mobile and other

Photo / Gravatar

Out of the box users can choose to upload a photo/avatar of themselves or if they have provided an email address linked to the Gravatar service they can elect to use that. Swapping between the two is a seamless experience.

Status information

Much like Twitter or Facebook, Nimble allows users to enter short snippets of text to describe what they are currently upto. In the future we like to be able to link status to Twitter, Facebook and others for multi-directional status sync.


Mini User Profiles

Mini profiles give a short piece of information about a user who has invoked an action. They provide
  • Username
  • Current status
  • photo
  • Full name
  • Email
  • A link to the full profile
You'll see we've used mini profiles throughout Nimble when you however over a username to give quick information about that account. You need to add the class 'userhighlight' and 'user_X' where X is the user ID on a container tag (such as a or h1) to invoke the mouse over. Refer to the userhighlight tag in the UI tags reference for more details.