eXo Platform 3.5

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## Chapter 2. Work with Connections

To build your network, you first need to hover your cursor over the display name on the Administration bar and select My Network from the drop-down menu.

The Network page appears and allows you to do the following actions:

- Search for your contact

- Send connection requests

This page consists of the following tabs:

- All People: list users who have registered in your system.

- Network: list users who have established connections with you. You can remove these connections by clicking Delete.

- Received Invitations: list users who have sent you connection request. You can click Accept to accept being as his/her contact or Deny to refuse.

- Pending Requests: list users to whom you have sent connection requests. You can also click Cancel to revoke your request.

## Search for your contact

This function allows you to find your desired contact quickly.

1. Select the relevant tab in which you want to do your search.

- To search across all users in eXo Platform, select the All People tab. Alternatively, you can hover your cursor over your display name and select Find People from the drop-down menu.

- To reduce the returned search results, select the appropriate tab first before using the search box. For example, to search for contacts with whom you have established connections, you need to select the Network tab.

2. Enter the contact name you want to search into the Find Contact field. When you type, the application automatically suggests the contact name containing your entered letter. You just need to select one of suggested names from the drop-down list.

- To do advanced lookups for your entered name, click More option. This option allows you to filter your contacts by positions, skills and gender.

- To stop doing advanced lookups, click Hide option.

2. Hit the Enter key, or click to find your contact. The results will be listed in the People Found pane.

## Send connection requests

You easily send a request following one of two ways:

1. Hover your cursor over your display name on the Administration bar, and select My Network --> All People, or simply select Find People from the drop-down menu.

All users will be listed in the People Found pane.

2. Invite your desired contact via one of two ways.

The first way

- Click Invite to send your connection request.

The second way

- Click the contact name to go to his/her profile, then click Invite to connect at the right corner of the contact profile page.

The icon is then displayed next to the contact name. This means that your connection request is in the pending status until the invited contact confirms it.

### Note

If you follow the first way, the Invite link will become Cancel. Meanwhile, if you follow the second way, the Invite to connect text will be turned into Revoke.

### Revoke a connection request

In the People Found pane, simply select Cancel, or click the contact name to go to the relevant profile and select Revoke at the right corner of the contact's profile page.

### Accept/Deny a connection request

You can find all the connection requests in the Received Invitations tab. You can click Accept to accept the request, or Deny to reject the connection request.

### Disconnect from your contacts

In the Network or All People tab, you can remove the connections between you and the users who are as your contacts anymore via one of two following ways.

The first way

- Click Delete to remove your established connections.

The second way

- Click the contact name to go to the profile page, then click the Disconnect link at the right corner of the contact profile page.

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