# Settings ## Overview The People module in your company's MangoApps domain serves as an employee directory, allowing you to access information about colleagues and facilitating connections within the organization. Network administrators have the ability to customize various settings for this module to best suit your company's needs.
*** ### Basic Options **Employee Identifier Label**: Set a custom label for the employee identifier displayed on your domain. This label allows you to configure what you wish to call the 'Employee Identifier' in the user portal. Some examples are Employee Id, Payroll Id, Payroll Number etc. **People Lookahead Include**: Choose up to 2 additional field values to display alongside a user's full name in the User Portal, such as Job Title, Organization, Office Location, Phone, Extension, Email, or Mobile number. The additional field values are utilized in user lookaheads and lists, aiding in tasks like connecting users wishing to send private messages or find specific teams. **Show Display Name As**: Select the display format for the appearance of a user's name. If no "Also Known As" is present then the user's First Name will be shown followed by the Last Name. **Mentions Settings**: By default, this option is set to Auto. The display format for mentioned users is determined as follows: 1. If the first name is unique, only the First Name will be displayed. 2. If the first name is not unique but the combination of the first name and last name initial is unique, the display format will show the First Name followed by the Last Name Initial. 3. If neither of the above conditions is met (i.e., neither the first name alone nor the combination of first name and last name initial is unique), then the display format will default to showing the First Name followed by the Last Name for the user. Additional display format options are available based on the selected 'Show Display Name As' setting value. Choose one of these options to standardize and apply the chosen display format naming convention for all users in your company. *** ### People UI Settings The People Directory supports two UI styles—Classic and Modern—each offering a different search and browsing experience. The **Classic** style presents the People Directory in a traditional list or grid layout. Users typically browse or manually search through people using standard navigation and sorting options. This style is familiar and straightforward, and is the default experience. The **Modern** style features a search-first, modern searching-style experience designed to help users find people faster. It features a centered search bar, smart quick filters, and advanced custom filters that automatically refine results as they are selected. The Modern style also supports an optional AI-assisted mode through Colleague Finder, allowing users to ask natural-language questions to identify relevant colleagues and experts. Results are displayed in a clean grid layout and are optimized for quick discovery and filtering rather than manual browsing. In summary, the **Classic** style focuses on simple browsing and traditional navigation, while the **Modern** style emphasizes intelligent search, filtering, and AI-powered discovery for faster and more accurate people finding. To see more on these two styles, visit the People module in the User Help Guide [here](https://guides.mangoapps.com/user-guide/people-directory-and-profiles/classic-vs.-modern-view). *** ### Manage Tabs and Widgets on User Profile The **Manage Widgets and Tabs on User Profile** setting allows admins to customize the visibility of tabs and widgets on user profiles. Click on the Customize button for Tabs or Widgets to access the respective Customization menus. Through the **Tabs Customization** feature, admins can enable or disable specific tabs, which displays available tabs as cards with ON/OFF toggles. Tabs from inactive modules are hidden, and changes made in the pop-up only take effect after clicking **Save** on the settings page. By default, new domains have the **Info Tab** (always ON), **Trash Tab**, and **Org Chart Tab** enabled, while existing domains retain their current tab configurations unless modified. Tabs follow a preset order that cannot be rearranged.
The **Widgets Customization** feature provides similar control over the widgets displayed on the right-side panel of user profiles under the Info and Timeline tabs. Admins can toggle the visibility of widgets from active modules. Certain widgets, like **Reward Wallet**, remain visible only on a user’s own profile. For new domains, **no widgets** are enabled by default, while existing domains maintain their current configurations unless adjusted. As with tabs, widget changes are finalized only after clicking **Save** on the settings page. The **topmost enabled tab** in the reordered list automatically becomes the default landing page for all user profiles. No separate default tab setting is required — changing the order immediately updates the landing tab behaviour network-wide. {% hint style="warning" %} On the user side, tabs and widgets behave dynamically based on customization settings. If multiple tabs are enabled, users can navigate between them, but a single enabled tab will display directly without a navigation bar. Widgets can link to content in disabled tabs, allowing the content to display without showing the tab itself. The **avatar widget** remains **unaffected**, consistently displaying the user’s profile picture. {% endhint %} *** ### Advanced Options **Enable Org Chart View**: Check this box to display or hide the organization hierarchy of all network users on the User Portal. When disabled, the **Org Chart view button** on the **People Directory** page and the **Org Chart tab** on a user's profile page are hidden.
When enabled, choose between two views: * **Classic:** The organization chart hierarchy expands horizontally from left to right, allowing multiple levels to remain expanded simultaneously. This view is recommended when you need to see multiple levels of the organization chart, especially for scenarios that require a broader overview of hierarchical relationships. * **Modern:** The organization chart hierarchy expands vertically from top to bottom, with only one level expanded at a time. This view is recommended for a cleaner, more focused view where only one level is expanded at a time **Allow Users to Edit Profile Photo**: Enable this option to allow users to change their profile photos via the User Portal. {% hint style="warning" %} Disable this option if your user data is synced from an Active Directory/LDAP server. When the domain is AD synced this setting is not applicable for the synced profiles {% endhint %} **Allow users to set and edit avatar:** This setting allows users to configure [**User Avatars**](https://guides.mangoapps.com/user-guide/people-directory-and-profiles/user-profile/user-avatars) and use it as their profile picture. **Allow users to export filtered people's list**: Enable this setting to allow a selected group of users to export data as an XLS file from the People module. The export option will **only** appear when a filter is applied within the module, and it will download the fields visible in the People directory. *** ### FAQs **Are guest users displayed in the People Directory on the User Portal?** No, guest users are not displayed in the People Directory in the User Portal. {% hint style="info" %} For detailed guidance on how these settings impact the People module and user profiles on the User Portal, refer to the [**People Directory & Profile**](https://guides.mangoapps.com/user-guide/people-directory-and-profiles) section in the User Portal Guide. {% endhint %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://guides.mangoapps.com/admin-guide/module-settings/people/settings.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.