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The Portfolio tab is a single profile tab that gathers a member’s activity from your other Wbcom apps into one place. Jobs and a resume from Career Board, listings from WB Listora, courses and certificates from Learnomy - they all appear inside one “Portfolio” tab on the member’s BuddyNext profile, each as its own sub-tab, rather than each app adding a tab of its own.

Before you start: The Portfolio tab comes with BuddyNext Pro. It fills itself from whichever companion apps you run - Career Board, WB Listora, Learnomy - so you need Pro active and at least one of those integrations enabled for the tab to have anything to show. There is nothing to build; the tab assembles itself.

Why use it

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As you add business apps to your community - a job board, a directory, an LMS - each one has things worth showing on a member’s profile: the jobs they posted, the listings they run, the courses they teach or completed. Left to themselves, each app would add its own profile tab, and a member’s profile would sprawl into a row of tabs nobody reads.

The Portfolio tab solves that once. Every integration contributes a panel to the same tab, so ten integrations still mean one tidy “Portfolio”. A member gets a single professional profile surface that reflects everything they do across your community, and a visitor gets one place to understand who they are looking at.

How it works (for members)

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A member’s profile shows a Portfolio tab whenever there is something to put in it. Inside, each connected app contributes its own sub-tab (a panel):

  • Career Board - Jobs and Resume (the member’s public resume), each linking out to the Career Board page. The owner sees “Manage Jobs” and “Manage Resume” links.
  • WB Listora - Listings, the member’s directory listings, linking out to each listing, plus an owner-only “Manage Business” link.
  • Learnomy - Certifications (completed courses and certificates, public), Teaching (courses they teach, public), and a private Learning shelf of in-progress courses.

Two things keep the tab honest:

  • Panels are gated by their own data. A member who has no jobs, no listings, and no courses has no Portfolio tab at all - it appears only when a panel has content, so the tab is never empty.
  • Some panels are for the member only. Learnomy’s Learning sub-tab (in-progress courses with a completion percentage) shows only on the member’s own profile as a personal resume shortcut. It is never shown to other people. Public credentials like certificates are visible to everyone.

Every panel links out to the source app rather than trying to reproduce it. The Portfolio tab surfaces the member’s activity and points to where it lives; it never takes over the other app’s screens, and its copy stays about the member, not about the plugin behind it.

Built to serve an app, when there is one

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The Portfolio is assembled from one shared data source and served through the REST API rather than being built into the page, so any client reading the API gets the same panels the web shows.

There is no BuddyNext mobile app yet. The native iOS and Android app is planned and not yet released, so today this matters only if you are building your own client against the API. It is a design property of the Portfolio, not a feature you can use in a store app.

Setting it up (for owners)

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There is nothing to assemble. The Portfolio tab is built into Pro and fills itself from the integrations you enable:

  1. Make sure BuddyNext Pro is active.
  2. Install and activate the companion apps you want - Career Board, WB Listora, or Learnomy.
  3. Open Integration Settings (its own section in the BuddyNext admin menu). Each integration has the usual switches: Show in navigation, Post to the activity feed, and Include in search (Include in search appears only for integrations that have searchable content). Its Portfolio sub-tab appears automatically once the app is active, Show in navigation is on, and a member has content. The card also shows a badge when the partner is older than BuddyNext supports (“Update needed”) or newer than it was built for (“Newer partner”).

BuddyNext Pro declares these minimum partner versions: Career Board 1.4.3 and Learnomy 1.9.4. WB Listora declares none.

Each integration’s own behaviour - what a job or listing or course does - is configured in that app, not here. The Portfolio tab only decides how a member’s activity from those apps is shown on their profile.

Good to know

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  • One tab, never many. However many Wbcom apps you run, they all share the single Portfolio tab. No integration adds a competing profile tab.
  • The tab hides when empty. With no content from any integration, a member simply has no Portfolio tab - there is no blank surface to explain.
  • Owner-only panels stay private. A member’s in-progress learning shows only to them; public credentials show to everyone. Each panel decides its own audience.
  • Panels link out, they do not take over. The Portfolio reflects activity that lives in Career Board, Listora, or Learnomy and links to it; it never edits or stores that data.
  • Inert without the apps. With none of the companion apps installed, the Portfolio tab does nothing and shows nothing - no errors, no empty panels.

Free vs Pro

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The Portfolio tab and the suite integrations that feed it are part of BuddyNext Pro. BuddyNext Free surfaces none of the companion-app activity on profiles. The companion apps themselves (Career Board, WB Listora, Learnomy) run on their own, but bringing their activity onto a member’s BuddyNext profile requires Pro. For what each app contributes to the community as a whole - feed activity, community search, and the shared notification center - see the Career Board, WB Listora, and Learnomy integration pages.

Requirements

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  • BuddyNext Pro active alongside BuddyNext.
  • At least one companion app active: Career Board, WB Listora, or Learnomy.
  • Members with content in those apps (a job, a listing, a course) for their Portfolio tab to appear.
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