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Your User Profile includes your name, email address, and other contact information. Within U-KNOW, your name and email address are automatically loaded from your uLogin information. You can make changes to your listed phone number, IM address or web address. There is also an About Me section in your personal profile you can change. This page will explain how to add a profile picture and set these options

as well as a person image to display next to your name.

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Add or Update a Profile Picture

  1. Click on the picture icon at the top right of the screen and choose 'Profile'.
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  2. Click 'Picture' on the left. 
  3. Under 'Upload a Profile Picture', click the 'Choose File' button. Select a photo of yourself (e.g. a GIF, JPG or PNG file) from your computer. Then click the 'Upload' button.
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    (tick) If you don't have a suitable image file, select one of the 'Default Icons' instead. Here are some of them. You will find more on your Profile Picture screen.
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  4. If the picture you selected is too big, you can now trim it. You will see your picture, with a highlighted box somewhere in the middle. Click and drag the box so that it covers the area of the picture you want. Pull the corners of the box in or out to select a larger or smaller area.
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  5. Click the 'Save' button. Confluence will use the area of the picture which you have selected, and will resize it to the required size (48 pixels by 48 pixels). 
  6. Click the 'Set Profile Picture' button.
  7. Your profile picture will appear next to any comments that you add and next to your updates on the Dashboard. Here's an example:
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Add or Edit Personal Profile Information

  1. To make changes to the information available to people who look in the People directory for you, click on the picture icon at the top right of the screen and choose 'Profile' (if you are not in your profile already).
  2. Click the Edit Profile button on the right, under your profile picture.
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  3. Make the desired changes to phone number, IM, website, or About Me.
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    2. Please note: You cannot change your Full Name or Email address, as this information is populated automatically.
  4. Click Save.
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Your user profile contains your user details (e.g. your name, your picture) and your Confluence user preferences (e.g. time zone and email format). For more information about updating your user profile, please see the Confluence documentation.