Following a profile in Experience League

[AbelleWoo]

I know I am missing something, but can we follow profiles on Experience League?

When I click on a profile, there is not an option to follow them or add to a favourites.

Any help would be appreciated!  

[skyehansen · Accepted solution]

I think you can only follow posts at this time but I'll cc @jon_chen  in case I'm wrong about that.

[jon_chen]

Hi @AbelleWoo,

What @skyehansen said is correct, you cannot follow a profile at this time. I have taken note of this feedback and will pass it off to our product team.

[Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore]

That said, @AbelleWoo...

What you can do as a proxy is to click a user of interest to see their latest contributions and catch up. I use this technique myself at the top of our www.atappstore.com homepage, as below (my personal link being https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/17569403).

Regards,

Doug

[Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore]

Hah! And stealing from the "local food trucks map" from 2009...

You could go one step further and build a Workfront Dashboard with an external page pointing to your favorite contributors in Adobe Experience League (e.g. in the three column layout) to quickly peruse what's been going on...

Regards,

Doug

[AbelleWoo]

Thanks Doug, I love this idea and went straight to create the dashboard - however,  'experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com refused to connect :-('

I have searched for a solution but it seems more complicated than it should be. However, if I click on the name of the external link (that I created) then it acts as a quick link to the profile in Experience League, sadly the dashboard cannot preview me the content.

From another thread, I found this link which others might find to be useful : https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/workfront/using/reporting/dashboards/create-dashboards/em...

[Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore]

Hi @AbelleWoo ,

I noticed you used "http:" instead of "https:" (secure), so invite you to try your external dashboard again with this link: https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/

If it works, you could then continue with my original Brady Bunch View idea to show your favorite contributors all at once.

If it doesn't work (or you prefer), you could create a Project called AEL contributors, a Task with the name if each contributor,, copy/paste their AEL link (with https; best practice) into their Hyperlink property in their Task, create a report of those Task Names and Hyperlinks, then add the report to a dashboard for quick (and condensed) quick reference.

Regards,

Doug

[AbelleWoo]

Thanks Doug, will look into the project suggestion.

My external dashboard was definitely using https: and using the link you provided, still showed 'refused to connect', sadly.

I will investigate on the project suggestion and report back.

[Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore]

Ah: gotcha @AbelleWoo,

In that case, Adobe must have decided to not allow AEL to be iFramed.

The same thing happened to me several years ago when Google changed Google Maps to no longer be iFrameable. Too bad: I had a calculated parameter that converted a user's Lat and Long entry (easily obtained from your smart phone) to then show that location on Google Map right within Workfront. As you might now have to do, I resorted to switching it to a link that opened in a new tab.

Functional, but less elegant,

Regards,

Doug