[V4] - Suggestion and Recommendation System

Front End

• Recommend Friends: block found in Home Page. PhpFox system will automatically suggest friends from one member to others.
  • Recommend Friends block will display the list of user’s friends. Each friend will display the number of their friends and Suggest Friends link. 
  • By click Suggest Friends of user’s current friend, Suggestions pop-up window appears.  There is a list of user’s friends which are available for suggestions to that user’s friends. For example, Isabella is your friend and she appears on Recommend Friends block on your Home Page. By click Suggest Friends, in Suggestions window, you can suggest Isabella to know your other friends (who are not Isabella’s friends yet). By this way, a user who has a few friends can easily make friends with others members in the community via the trusted relationship. 
  • Allows users to remove /reject suggestions which they do not find useful. These suggestions are replaced by new suggestions via ajax.
• Friend Request Notification:  in mini Menu with 2 blocks Friend Suggestions and People You May Know. User can add/ignore the suggestion or See All Friend Requests.
  • Friend Suggestions block shows all members who are not friends with current user and are suggested to current user by user’s friends.
  • People You May Know block is automatically suggestion from system, which show randomly some members who are not friends of current user but there are some mutual friends
• Allow members to suggest friends and contents to their other friends
  • Friend Suggestion:
    • Suggest friends to just-accepted friend. For example, if Isabella accepted the friend’s request from Steve, Isabella would suggested her friends to Steve by using the Suggestion popup. Isabella could use the recommendation popup to send friend’s requests to friends of Steve as well
    • In Member Profile page of any friend, there is Suggest Friends link which allow current user to suggest his/her friends to this friend
  • Content Suggestion includes Pages, Blogs, Photos, Forum threads, Polls, Videos, Quizzes, Events, Music, Marketplace Listings, Contest, Coupon, Fund Raising, Petition, Job and Knowledge Base
    • Suggest just-created content to friends. In this case, when user has just created new content such as new blog, new coupon, etc, the suggestion popup will be displayed and the creator can select friends to send the suggestion. If his / her friends click on the suggestion, they will go to the content page to view detailed information
    • Suggest any particular content to friends through Suggest friends link on content’s profile page. In this case, when user is viewing an attractive content such as a blog, a music, etc, he/she can share this to friends by clicking on the “Suggest friends” link. System will display the suggestion popup and he / she can select friends to send the suggestion
• Suggestions page which contains 2 sections:
  • Friends’ Suggestions: list out all suggestions from friends including friends’s suggestion and content pages’ suggestion. Suggestions are classified by modules and the viewer can accept/ignore them easily.
    • Suggestion for adding new friends: beside the suggestions from friends, the viewer can see some suggestions from system
    • Suggestion for liking page: beside the suggestions from friends, the viewer can see some suggestions from system
    • Suggestion for viewing event: beside the suggestions from friends, the viewer can see some suggestions from system
    • Suggestion for applying job: beside the suggestions from friends, the viewer can see some suggestions from system
  • My Suggestions: show all suggestions which current user sent to his/her friends. The suggestions are classified by modules and the viewer can delete them
• Privacy Settings: Allow users to enable or disable 
  • Display suggestion popup after accepting a friend
  • Display recommendation popup after accepting a friend
  • Display suggestion popup after creating a content
• Member will receive Notification updates upon actions on friend suggestions.
• Allow member to set notification setting for suggestion. 

Back End 

• Manage User Group: 
  • Suggestion: Enable admin to configure settings for Recommendation and Suggestion module for each type of user group

Question 1: Have Recommendation And Suggestion been integrated with Advanced Marketplace module?

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