While the Summary screen is the same as the one shown above and the Show Posts and Show Stats links are effectively duplicates, profile owners are also provided with the tools to customize their own profiles:
- Account Related Settings enables you to make changes to your display name (your login or username can only be changed by an administrator), preferred language (if the forum administrators have installed alternative language packs), email and password settings.
- Forum Profile Information enables you to enter optional personal details such as gender, birthdate, location, website and instant messenger contact information. It's also where you go to enter your own personal text and signature and select an avatar (personal picture) from a list (if provided by the forum administrators) or link to one of your own on the web.
- Look and Layout Preferences enables you to select your preferred theme (forum skin), time zone and format and other personal choices for layout settings. Note that the currently selected option in the menu pane is highlighted in bold type:
- Notifications and Email enables you to select personal preferences for notifications (emails about new topics/replies) and lists any notifications that you have set up.
- Personal Message Options enables you to set up an ignore list (blacklist) for Personal Messages, to request notification of new PMs by email and to save copies of your outgoing PMs by default.
Actions
- Delete this account does exactly what it says! Yes, there's a confirmation screen, but it really does delete your own account, so be careful...
Settings Normally Restricted to Admins
As well as being able to view/edit any of the details above from other members' profiles, some further options are normally visible to (and executable by) admins only:
Profile Info
- Track User provides a list of IP numbers used by the member, other members who might be in the same IP range and error messages generated/experienced by the member.
- Track IP provides tools for tracking members, messages and errors from any specified IP range.
- Show Permissions lists the board permissions that have been granted to the member and who gave them.
Modify Profile
- Account Related Settings is basically the same screen as shown to profile owners, but with the additional option to assign members to member groups.
- Forum Profile Information is basically the same screen as shown to profile owners, but with the additional option to specify custom titles for members.
Actions
- Ban this user provides tools for banning users, configuring the level of the ban and maintaining a ban list noting the details of any bans in force.
- Delete this account is similar to the screen of the same name available to all members, but the confirmation question is different when it's not your own account that's about to be deleted.
