DatsConnection
DatsConnection is where your professional network lives — the connections you already have, the requests waiting on you, and suggestions of people you might know.
You reach it from the Professional Connections row on your own page. It opens on People, with a Groups tab beside it, a search box for your existing connections, and three buttons: + Invite, Pending and Discover. The heading carries your connection count, and there is a ceiling on it — see Why connections stop at 150.
How to
- Send someone a connection requestYou want to connect with someone so you can see each other's pages, chat and call.
- Accept someone who has asked to connect with youSomeone has sent you a request and you want to connect.
- Take back a request you sentYou asked the wrong person, or changed your mind before they answered.
- Take someone off your active connections listYou want a shorter list, or you would rather not be connected right now.
What it can do
- See everyone you are connected to, with a count
- Get suggestions of people you may know, with how many connections you have in common
- Send someone a connection request, and see that it was sent
- Accept or decline requests other people have sent you
- Take back a request you sent before it is answered
- Move a connection off your active list without losing them
- Label how you know someone, and filter your list by those labels
- Search for someone by name, and see at a glance who you are already connected to
Worth knowing
⚠️ You cannot block a person from here, and that is not an oversight in this page. The ⋯ menu has no Block, because DatsPro has no single "block this person" switch. What can be blocked is a comment author and an email address, separately — see Blocking someone. ⚠️ The + Invite button's field takes a name, an email address, or a group tag — and pressing Invite with a NAME does not invite anybody. It searches, and gives you a list with an Add button per person; anyone you are already connected to is shown as Connected instead. An email address is the case that actually sends an invitation, for someone who is not on DatsPro yet. See Groups for the group-tag case.
Who can see it
Professional Connections is its own section on your page with its own badge, and it is one of the sections that is always private — only you see it. See The sections of your page and Who can see what.
Where to find it: /your-name