Board Thread:Announcements/@comment-4146635-20140205064235

'''Hey guys! On Chatter you can now add friends to your actors' profiles and send friend requests! I tweaked the Chatter template and made a new template to help us do this! Actors can now send each other friend requests, receive them, and make a friend list on their profile! Continue below to see how! :)'''

Friend profile box
Before you do anything part of making friends on Chatter, you have to make a "Friend Box." This will be a template used to identify your actor on Chatter profiles that are friends with your actor. Making this template is fairly simple. Just make a new page titled "Template:Actor Name." It is crucial that you name this template your actor's first and last name. Copy this code and fill it out:

Then publish the template and your friend box is done!

Sending friend requests
Each Chatter profile comes with a link to send someone a friend request. If you click it, it will send you to the bottom of the page. Please make your friend requests in the comments and specify the actor making the request. The actor does not have to accept the request but it'd be nice if they did!

Adding friends to profile
To add a friend to your profile, simple edit your actor's Chatter page and edit the profile template (titled "Chatter"). There should be a "friends" section in the template when you edit in visual mode. If you're in source and it's not there, please add it ("friends = "). Then just add the name of the actor you are adding (first and last name) in between these characters,. And then you are done! You can publish and the actor should be added to your friends list! Remember, you cannot add friends to your profile unless you have sent them a friend request and they accepted it or unless they sent you a friend request and you accepted it.

I hope you like it! You can see a demonstration of the whole friending process on Tristan Conti's Chatter page! Thanks for reading! :) 