Personalizing your workspace

Personalize your workspace

Settings is where you maintain your account details. A Profile is your personal page for information and articles; your own Profile provides access to Settings. Conduit is a social blogging site.

Before you start

You must be signed in to open Settings. The route redirects an unauthenticated visitor to /login.

Prerequisites

• Have the account whose personal details you want to maintain.
• Be signed in before opening Settings.
• To use Edit Profile Settings, open the profile that belongs to the signed-in account.
• To change a password, use the New Password field on Settings.

Find Settings and your profile

Open your own Profile when you need the editing route.

Prerequisites

• Be signed in.

Steps

1. Open /settings to go directly to Settings.
2. Open your profile from the account link in the header.
3. Select Edit Profile Settings on your own profile.

The Edit Profile Settings link appears when the loaded profile belongs to the current user. A profile that belongs to someone else shows Follow instead.

Result: You are on Settings, ready to review or change your personal details.

Understand the Settings screen

The Settings screen contains five personal fields for your profile picture, username, biography, email address, and new password. New Password has a required validator in the form configuration; the other four controls have no configured validator.

Select Update Settings to submit the form. Select Or click here to logout. to leave the account.

Result: You can identify each personal field and the action that submits or ends the session.

Update your personal settings

Updating personal settings changes the account details used by your Profile. The form starts with the current user's data when that data is available.

Prerequisites

• Be signed in and on Settings.
• Have the new profile details ready.

Steps

1. Enter the profile-picture address in URL of profile picture.
2. Enter the account name in Username.
3. Enter the biography in Short bio about you.
4. Enter the email address in Email.
5. Enter a new password in New Password when you are changing it.
6. Select Update Settings.

When you leave New Password empty, the update request omits that value. While the update is being submitted, the form fields are disabled.

Result: After a successful update, the app opens the updated user's Profile.

Choose the personal change you need

Use Settings for changes to your own account. Use a Profile to view personal information; Edit Profile Settings is available when the profile is yours.

Prerequisites

• Be signed in.
• Know whether you are changing profile details, changing a password, or viewing another profile.

Steps

1. Choose the route that matches your task:

   If you need to…	Use this route
   Change your picture, username, biography, or email	Settings
   Change your password	New Password on Settings
   View another person's personal information	Their Profile
   Edit your own profile	Edit Profile Settings

Result: You are using the personal surface that matches the change you want to make.

When an update goes wrong

The shared error area lists returned errors. Each entry is displayed as a key followed by its value, using the form key value.

Failed to load profile is used when profile loading fails without an errors payload.

Result: You know where the error appears and which action to try next.

Know what to do next

After you finish a personal-settings task, continue from the destination or choose the page for the next account task.

Steps

1. Choose your next action:

   If you need to…	Choose
   Continue after a successful update	Open the updated user's Profile
   Complete the settings procedure	Open Update settings
   Change only the password	Open Change your password
   Leave the account	Select Or click here to logout. or open Sign out

Result: You are either on the updated Profile or at the dedicated page for your next account task.