Managing Project and Member Privacy
Privacy in a Social System Map is a particular kind of trust. People aren’t just
sumApp Member View | Connections Page | Filter by Segment
1. Click “Connections” to find members you want to add a connection to. 2. Selec
Steps to Manually Add a Segment in sumApp from ‘Manage Members’ Page
1. From ‘My Projects’, select the ‘Manage’ drop-down for the project you want to
Purpose of Segments
Segments are used to separate out your member list into smaller, more manageable chucks in the sumApp member view connections page. This is useful when you have large populations and don’t want to require everyone to go through the entire list. Segments are appropriate when there are subsets of the population that are more likely to know one another – for instance, if you’re mapping teachers in a school system, they’re more likely to know each other if they teach in the same school. Segments would allow the teachers to filter by school to shorten the list of names to those they are most likely to know.
To Know
- Segments are defined by the administrator, not the map users.
- If using Segments, there will be a drop-down filter on the sumApp connections page (where your members see the list of other members and indicate who they know).
- Each member’s segment shows on their member tile in the sumApp connections page.
- Each person can only belong to a single segment.
- Segments should be defined by something your map members have in common that makes it more likely they will know one another (such as school, or program, or department or in some cases fields or specialties). Commonalities that are not particularly useful are things like gender, age, broad interests. (those may be fine survey questions, but not helpful for identifying a sub-group one is most likely to know.
- Segments can be loaded via a CSV file, added manually in the member list, or manually from the add members page.
- If you use the Opt-in form, you can set that so that members can select their segment there.
- Segments are exported with the survey data and can be used in the map, but that is not their primary function.
- Segments aren’t useful in smaller groups where there aren’t existing sub-groups – if you don’t want too use Segments, you can choose not to have the segment drop down show in your member view – change it in the settings page.
What Segments Are Not
Segments are only meant to make defining connections easier in sumApp for members:
- They are not how you define filters in Kumu.
- You can use them as a filter in Kumu, but if that’s all you need it for, it’s better to create a field in the survey.
- They do not feed back into the survey in any way.
The video below gives a quick demo of how to sort map members by segment once they’re set up for your connections.
Are you starting a new mapping project? The Opt In Form is one way to help get new map members into your sumApp mapping project. In the video below, we discussed how to use the Opt-In form and ‘My Preferences’ options in sumApp and think about how to get members into sumApp based on different contexts.
Are you starting a new mapping project? The Opt In Form is one way to help get new map members into your sumApp mapping project. In the video below, we discussed how to use the Opt-In form and ‘My Preferences’ options in sumApp and think about how to get members into sumApp based on different contexts.
Sometimes you want to enable several specific people who are already on the map to go into sumApp.
For instance, you’re doing a presentation and you’re asking them to update their profiles & connections, or to navigate the map from their own sumApp instance.
But you don’t want to send an email blast to the whole network.
You COULD select each one from the member list and send the invite to them manually, and you COULD pull each person’s URL from the status report and put that into, for instance a zoom chat.
But that’s distracting in the middle of a meeting.
The simplest approach would be to put the ‘send me my link form’ into your zoom chat instead.
Or you might want to post the ‘send me my link form’ somewhere anyone on the map can find it, such as an internal map landing page, or in the map sidepanel itself – that way, if a map member loses their personal sumApp link, they can retrieve it themselves.
Why It’s Helpful
- Saves you from digging through the member list or resending invitations.
- Gives access back to the members.
- Helps members remember how they got their link (in case they lose it again).
Important Notes
- 🚫 This form doesn’t ADD people to the member list, it only works for a member who is in the list already, and they need to use the same email that’s already in the list.
- You can use this functionality even if you’re not using your Opt-In form.
✅ How to Share the “Send Me My Link” Form

From the ‘Setup’ menu under the “Define opt-in form” submenu
- Scroll to the ‘Send me my link form’ section.
- Click the 📋 clipboard icon to copy the link.
If it helps to watch a visual walk through, we have a quick TechTalk video demonstrating this feature, here.
What Happens When Members Use This Form

- They’ll be prompted to enter the same email they were added with initially.
- If the email matches, sumApp will automatically send them their unique access link.
- If it doesn’t match, they’ll be prompted to try another email or contact you.