Managing Your Account in Oracle Social Network Desktop

An Oracle Social Network account is your connection to a server that is hosting an instance of Oracle Social Network. Your organization might have multiple servers, each offering its own instance of Oracle Social Network. If you have connection privileges to two or more of these, then you can say you have multiple accounts.

Note: With the desktop client, you can interact with only one Oracle Social Network account at a time.

Your system administrator likely set up your system to automatically connect to the necessary accounts. However, you might be required to supply your name and password at the start of every session.

The first time you start Oracle Social Network Desktop, the Manage Accounts dialog opens with options for configuring this and future sessions. There are options for:

• Showing or hiding the Manage Accounts dialog at future start-ups (for more information, see How do I enable account switching when I start Oracle Social Network Desktop?)

• Selecting the account you want to use in this session (for more information, see How do I enable account switching when I start Oracle Social Network Desktop?)

• Saving your password for future sessions (for more information, see How do I save my password in Oracle Social Network Desktop?)

• Working offline (for more information, see How do I work offline in Oracle Social Network Desktop?)

If you have just one account, you might want to save your password and disable account switching. If you have multiple accounts, you might want the Manage Accounts dialog to show at the start of each session so you can select the account to use (see How do I enable account switching when I start Oracle Social Network Desktop?).

1. At the top of the sidebar, open the Accounts menu and select Manage Accounts.
2. Select Ask for an account at startup.

   Every time you start up Oracle Social Network Desktop, the Manage Accounts dialog opens, and you can select an account from the Account list.

   Clear this option to disable account switching.

1. At the top of the sidebar, open the Accounts menu, then select Manage Accounts.
2. Select an account from the Account list.

   You can see the account name, server URL, your user name, and the options you've selected for the account.

1. At the top of the sidebar, open the Accounts menu, then select Manage Accounts.
2. In the Manage Accounts dialog, click to clear all current values.
3. In the Server URL field, enter the URL to your Oracle Social Network account, then click Next.

   For example, enter: https://acme.social.us1.oraclecloud.com/client.

4. If your company uses federated authentication, your newly created account is selected in the Manage Accounts dialog. Click OK, then enter your login information as requested.

   If your company doesn't use federated authentication, skip to the next step.

5. If necessary, enter the Identity Domain.
6. In the User Name field, enter your Oracle Social Network user name.
7. In the Password field, enter your Oracle Social Network password.
8. To log in automatically in future sessions, select Remember password.
9. Click Finish.

1. At the top of the sidebar, open the Accounts menu and select the account you want to switch to.
2. If you haven't saved the selected account's name and password, a dialog will open and you can enter them there.

1. At the top of the sidebar, open the Accounts menu and select Manage Accounts.
2. Select Remember password.
3. Click OK.

1. At the top of the sidebar, open the Accounts menu and select Manage Accounts.
2. From the Account list, select the account you want to delete.
3. Click .

1. Open the Accounts menu at the top of the sidebar.
2. Select Work Offline.

   A check mark appears to the left to the Work Offline option.