Managing Your Profile in the MCommunity Directory
S4380 • March 2013
This document describes how to find and change information in your profile in the MCommunity Directory via the web. Your directory profile contains information about how to contact you and more that is related to your affiliation with the University of Michigan.
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TIP: If you use Internet Explorer 7 or 8, you'll need to adjust some IE settings to be able to see any changes that you make to your profile or groups.
TIP: Most changes you make to your MCommunity Directory profile or groups take effect immediately or within a couple of minutes. Some changes, particularly those that must get to multiple systems, may take longer. When will my MCommunity changes be made?
Viewing Your Directory Profile
Go to the MCommunity Directory (mcommunity.umich.edu). Type your uniqname in the search box, then click the Search button.
In the list of search results, click your name.
Your profile will be displayed. This is the guest view of your profile that anyone with web access can see.
Log In to Change Your Profile
On any page in the MCommunity Directory, click the Log In link in the upper right corner to log in.
Log in with your uniqname and UMICH Kerberos password.
To see your profile, click the My Profile link in the upper right corner.
You will see a view of your profile that allows you to make changes.
Choosing How Much Information to Show in Your Profile
What's In Your Profile to Start
A standard person profile (one that has not been customized by its owner) displays this minimal public information:
Faculty and staff profiles include this additional information:
Student profiles include this additional information:
Use Viewable By Menus to Hide or Show Some Information
Whenever you see a Viewable By menu next to a piece of information in your profile (these are visible when you are editing the information), you can select who can see that information. The Viewable By menus look like this:
There are three options for who can view the information:
Viewable By Everyone. Anyone with Internet access can view the information. Viewable By U-M Only. Only people who log in to the MCommunity Directory with a uniqname and password can view the information. This includes faculty, staff, students, alumni, retirees, and sponsored guests. Viewable By Self Only. No one other than you can see the information, and you must be logged in to see it.
Students Can Request Non-Disclosure of Directory Information
Students can have everything but their uniqname hidden in their MCommunity profile by requesting non-disclosure of directory information from the Registrar's Office on their campus. This restricts what information the university can release no matter how it is released. For example, it restricts what information university telephone operators can give out and what university offices can provide to potential employers and others.
Questions or Concerns About What's In Your Profile?
If you have questions or concerns about the information displayed in your MCommunity profile, the ITS Service Center can help. If more information than you want is displayed, or if not enough information is shown, the Service Center can assist.
Updating Contact Information (Address, Phone, and More)
Log in to the directory and view your profile. In the Contact Information box, click Edit.
Update your primary addresses and phone numbers at the source. This information comes from official university records. You must change it in your official U-M record(s) rather than in MCommunity. The record to be changed depends on your relationship with the university:
Faculty and staff (all three campuses).
Update your home addresses and phone numbers online using Wolverine Access. Update your work phone number(s) online using Wolverine Access. Work addresses must be updated through Human Resources. You can use the Address/Personal Data Form (the campus section) available from HR Records & Information Services. Or your departmental administrative staff can submit an update to Human Resources for you.
Students on the Ann Arbor campus. Update your primary addresses and phone numbers online using Wolverine Access. Students on the Dearborn campus. Submit address and phone number changes to the U-M-Dearborn Office of Registration & Records. Students on the Flint campus. Use the Address and Name Change Form to submit address and phone number changes to the U-M-Flint Office of the Registrar. Alumni (all three campuses). No primary address and phone number are displayed. You can enter an address and phone number under the Additional heading if you wish. Sponsored individuals (all three campuses). No primary address and phone number are displayed. You can enter an address and phone number under the Additional heading if you wish.
Add contact information. You can add alternate addresses and phone numbers to your profile.
Choose who can see your contact information. Use the menus on the right to control which information on the left appears in your profile and who can see it.
Save. Click Save Changes to save your changes.
You will be returned to the logged-in view of your profile and will see confirmation that your changes have been saved.
To see the view of your profile that people who are not logged in see, select Guest View from the menu near the upper right corner. U-M users who log in to the directory will see everything that a guest can see, plus any additional information you have designated as "Viewable by U-M Only."
Other Information About You
Information on the right side of your profile that you can edit has an Edit link next to it. Click the Edit link to edit the information.
Away Message
Type a message that will be sent automatically to people who send you e-mail. Remember to turn on the Away Message feature when you want to start having the message sent—and to turn it off when you want the automatic replies to stop being sent.
There are a few things you should know about using the MCommunity Away Message:
The message takes effect almost immediately (it may take a few minutes to work its way through the system), so set it just before you are away from e-mail. The service keeps track of who sends you mail while you are away and only generates one automated reply to a given sender in a three-day period. Your message will be sent to correspondents who send mail to you using an address in the form of youruniqname@umich.edu. The vacation service only generates an automated reply if
Your e-mail address appears either in the To or Cc field of the incoming message. The message does not come from an address of the form something-request@host or have a "Precedence: bulk" or "Precedence: junk" header line. (This prevents automated replies from being sent to mailing lists to which you subscribe.)
ATTENTION EXCHANGE/OUTLOOK E-MAIL USERS! If you use the ITS Exchange E-Mail and Calendaring Service, you will want to use the vacation/out-of-office feature in your e-mail program. Mail sent from one Exchange user to another does not leave the Exchange system. As a result, it does not go through the MCommunity Directory and therefore does not trigger the sending of the MCommunity Away Message.
Title and Affiliation
These come from your official university record and must be corrected there rather than in MCommunity.
Title. You may have multiple titles or none, depending on your relationships with the university.
Faculty and staff: Your long/working title from Wolverine Access is listed. This is maintained by U-M Human Resources. Students: Your title is listed as "Student," followed by the college in which you are enrolled. This is maintained by the Office of the Registrar for your campus (Ann Arbor, Dearborn, or Flint). Other members of the university community do not have titles listed.
Affiliation. You may have multiple affiliations with the university.
Faculty and staff: Your work affiliations (division, work unit) are listed. Each is followed by "- Faculty and Staff."
For retirees, the affiliation is "Retiree - Faculty and Staff."
Terminated staff are in the directory with no affiliations for a grace period of a little over a year. (This allows them to forward their U-M mail to a different e-mail address and to keep use of their uniqname to access their W-2 forms.)
Students: Your academic affiliations (school, college, program, department) are listed. Each listed, followed by "- Student." Alumni: "Alumni" is listed. Sponsored people: "Sponsored Affiliate" is listed.
Students who have requested non-disclosure of directory information from the Registrar's Office will not have a Title and Affiliation section in their profile.
Also Known As
The Also Known As section of your profile contains a list of names that others can use when searching the directory for your entry. For example, if your name were Barbara Jensen, you might also want people to find you as Babs Jensen. Also Known As names must be some form of your real name and include your surname/last name at the end.
If your university record is stored in Wolverine Access, you can set a preferred name there, and it will appear in your list of Also Known As names; your preferred name will also be used at the top left of your profile.
To get other names added or removed, contact the ITS Service Center.
About Me
Share information about yourself such as your research, academic, or work interests. There's also a place to list your favorite beverage.
Notice
You can type whatever text you want for your notice. One possibility is to let people know how you want to be contacted (for example, "Phone my assistant at xxx-xxxx to schedule an appointment with me").
Proxies
Proxies are people who can edit the information in your directory profile just as you can. For example, you might want your administrative assistant or another staff member to be able to set an away notice for you or update other information in your profile. Proxies can be anyone with a uniqname and their own MCommunity Directory profile. Proxies log in to the directory with their own uniqname and password to access your profile.
Click Add Proxy.
In the box, type the uniqname (sorry, names won't work) of the person you want to be your proxy, then click Save.
Proxies are not listed in your public profile, so you do not have the option to select who can see them. Only you (and your proxy) can see them, and you must be logged in to do so.
Links
Share URLs to web sites relevant to your academic, work, or personal life.
SOCIAL MEDIA TIP: You can use links in your profile to let people know where to follow you or to get in touch with you via social media if you wish. For example, you might include links to your profiles for such social media as these:
- Twitter [work]
- Twitter [home]
- Google+
- LinkedIn
- Facebook
Choose how visible you want your link(s) to be, then click Add Link.
Type a name for the webpage you want your profile to link to. This is the name that will be visible. When people click the name in your profile, it will link to the URL that you enter.
Use Guest View to See How Others See Your Profile
To see the view of your profile that people who are not logged in see, select Guest View from the menu near the upper right corner of your profile.
Your Profile Settings (Mail Forwarding and More)
When e-mail is sent to you at youruniqname@umich.edu, the mail system checks the directory to find out where, exactly, to deliver your mail. The items under the Settings tab control aspects of the delivery of your e-mail.
You must be logged in to see your settings. In your profile, click the Settings tab.
For the most part, you can leave your settings as is. They are set for you when your U-M e-mail mailbox is created for you. You may, however, want to add a mail-forwarding address if you want your e-mail forwarded on to a different or additional address.
If you use, or perhaps used in the past, a departmental e-mail system, you may see a section at the bottom of your settings called E-Mail Address Aliases. This was set up for you to allow mail sent to departmental e-mail address to come to you at your @umich.edu address. We recommend that you leave this as is or check with your departmental administrator before removing it.
Additional Resources
Visit ITS's Information System to obtain ITS computer documentation and other resources. A list of relevant documents follows:
The ITS Service Center provides a variety of computing help resources.
For further help with this or any other topic, call 734-764-HELP [4357] or submit an online service request.
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