Creating Smart Individualized Connect Links

Hi friends,

When helping others by sharing links to the different settings pages here on Connect, you need to be aware that a link like this one:
https://www.localguidesconnect.com/u/mortencopenhagen/preferences/account
is trying to open the personal account settings page of a specific user and not the one of the users trying to open the link.

All users (except me) will get an error message like this one:

To avoid this, you can edit the url from
https://www.localguidesconnect.com/u/mortencopenhagen/preferences/account
to
https://www.localguidesconnect.com/my/preferences/account
Notice how “/u/mortencopenhagen/” is replaced with “/my/”. This will work from anywhere.

To make helping others a bit easier, all the smart individualized Connect Links are listed below. They are ordered according to the menu under your profile picture:

I hope you find it useful.

Cheers
Morten

First, the links to the 3 profile pages:

Your Summary profile page
Your Connect contributions
Your Connect badges

Messages

Your inbox

Bookmarks

Your bookmarks

Drafts

Your drafts

Invites

Your invites

Follow feed

Your Follow feed
Who you follow
Who follows you

Now onto the Preferences menu:

Account settings

Your account preferences
Edit your username, profile picture, email, and more

Security settings

Your security preferences
Here you can see a list of devices currently logged in on Connect.

Profile settings

Your profile preferences
Change your About me-text, your profile header image, your Featured topic, Date of birth, Location, Timezone and whether you want your Maps profile link to be shown on Connect.

Emails settings

Your email preferences
Specify if and when you get emails from Coennect.

Notifications settings

Your notification preferences
Here you can specify your interests in great details.

Tracking settings

Your tracking preferences
Define what topics, categories, and tags you want to follow and how.

Users settings

Your users preferences
Decide which users to ignore or mute. You can also decide who can message you

Interface settings

Your interface preferences
Here you can also select font size and your preferred language for the menus and translations.

Navigation Menu settings

Your navigation menu preferences
Decide how new items on a topic list will show on Connect.

Saved searches

The link to saved searched is currently not working! Please instruct users to: 1) Hit your Profile picture, 2) Hit Preferences, then 3) Hit Saved Searches.
Use this to set up searches you want to be notified about.

Please let me know if I missed some pages and if you have suggestions to improve the text above. Checking if all the links work correctly would also be appreciated.

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I found out we can create a URL that will open a new private message with prefilled data for
To:
Title:
Body:

https://localguidesconnect.com/new-message?username=MortenCopenhagen&title=Profile%20link&body=This%20is%20my%20Maps%20profile%20link:

You need to adapt the username, title, and body to suit your needs. Note that space needs to be replaced with %20

You can test is here.

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@MortenCopenhagen
Gibt es noch die privaten Nachrichten auf Connect?
Ich sehe in meinem Profil keinen Menüpunkt dazu.

Please see

https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t/private-messages-explained/463624

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