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Coaches And Friends

The Coaches And Friends page allows you to look up other users on the system and either request a Coach's review of your ride data, or request to follow them. This page assumes you either have a Coach or a riding partner that uses the system and you've exchanged  First Name, Last Name and Nicknames.

KOM Informatics allows you to confer the ability to see your rides and reports to other users of the system.  You can assign 1 of 3 roles to other users. Assigning the role of Coach allows the other user to see both your rides and reports, and they can create Coach's and Friend's comments on the Comments tab of an individual ride page. Assigning the role of Friend allows that user to see your rides, and create Friend's comments on the comments tab of an individual ride page.  Someone in the Friend role won't be able to see any of your Coach's comments should you have them. Assigning the role of Coached Athlete allows that athlete to see workouts you've created and designated as private.

Request Coach's Review Of Your Data

To request a coach's review of your data:

1. Click the [Settings][Coaches & Friends] main menu selections.
2. Fill in  the First Name, and Nickname textboxes in the search panel at the top of the screen. The Nickname is a system unique identifier that allows you to select between 2 individuals who have the same first and last name.
3. Click the [Go] button. If the search is succesful it will show a list of users with the First and Last name you selected beneath the search panel.
4. Click the [Request Coach Review]  button next to the user name.
5. The system will then send the Coach's data review request notification to the user you've looked up.
6. Once the notification is accepted by the other user he will have Coach rights to your feed which includes the ability to view all of your rides and reports.

If you are the prospective Coach in the above process you'll get a notification like "X has requested a Coach's review of their data from you. If you accept you'll get that person's rides in your feed and be able to view all of their reports." You will also be able to comment on their rides
where you can exchange contact information. Clicking the [Accept] button on the notification confers Coach rights to the athlete's feed.

After acceptance:

If you are the one requesting the review the Coach will appear on the "Your Coaches And Friends (Followers: Roles assigned by You)" panel.

If you are the prospective Coach the Athlete will appear on the "Your Athletes And Friends (Following: Roles Assigned To You) panel on your Coaches And Friends screen. The panel also will have a button [Assign Workout Rights] next to the user you've accepted the Coaches Review request from. This will allow this user to see and schedule the Workouts you've saved as "Private" on the system.

Clicking the [Assign Workout Rights] button next to a user confers the Coached Athlete role to that user. The athlete wil appear on the "Your Athletes And Friends (Following: Roles Assigned To You) panel as a Coached Athlete. Clicking the [Remove From Role] button on this panel

Send A Friend Follow Request:

To send a friend follow request to another user:

1. Click the [Settings][Coaches & Friends] main menu selections.
2. Fill in  the First Name, and Nickname textboxes in the search panel at the top of the screen. The Nickname is a system unique identifier that allows you to select between 2 individuals who have the same first and last name.
3. Click the [Go] button. If the search is succesful it will show a list of users with the First and Last name you selected beneath the search panel.
4. Click the [Request Follow]  button next to the user name.
5. The system will then send the follow request notification to the user you've looked up.
6. Once the notification is accepted by the other user he will have Friend rights to your feed which includes the ability to view all of your rides and comment on them.

After acceptance:

If you are the one accepting the follow request the one who has sent the request  will appear on the "Your Coaches And Friends (Followers: Roles assigned by You)" panel as a Friend.

If you are the one who has sent the follow request the one to whom you have sent the request will appear on the Your Athletes And Friends (Following: Roles Assigned To You) panel as a Friend.


Removing Roles/Permissions

To remove roles from a user:

1. Click the [Settings][Coaches & Friends] main menu selections.
2. Locate the user in the "Your Coaches And Friends (Followers: Roles Assigned By You)"  area of the screen.
3. Click the [Remove From Role] button in that user's row.
4. The screen should update. The user you selected should no longer appear in the "Your Coaches And Friends (Followers: Roles Assigned By You)"  area of the screen. They won't be able to see your rides or reports any longer.

The Coaches & Friends page also has a "Your Athletes And Friends (Following)" area of the page which lists the system users that have granted you access to their rides and/or reports. If, for any reason you want to unfollow a user:

1. Click the [Settings][Coaches & Friends] main menu selections.
2. Locate the user in the "Your Athletes And Friends (Following: Roles Assigned To You)" area of the page.
3. Click the [Remove From Role] button.
4. The screen should update. The user you selected should no longer appear in the Your Athletes And Friends (Following Roles Assigned To You)"  area of the screen.  Their rides should no longer appear in your ride feedl

1. Click the [Settings][Coaches & Friends] main menu selections.
2. Locate the user in the "Your Athletes And Friends (Following: Roles Assigned To You)" area of the page.
3. Click the [Set Reports User] button. The button will only appear for your coached athletes
4. The Reports User status tag on the menu bar should change to the user you selected.

If you are a Coach, and you need to set the Reports User of the application back to yourself:

1. Click the [Settings][Coaches & Friends] main menu selections.
2. Click the [Set Reports User To Self] button, located under the search panel.

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