#2824 - Publicly viewable CPF's and usergroup confusion

By Adam Edington
Added 13th Sep 2016, 9:01 AM
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Identifier	#2824
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Publicly viewable CPF's and usergroup confusion
Status	Closed (no changes needed)
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	cns_cpfs
Description	I assumed that publicly viewable would show a CPF to everyone including Guests. I didn't want that to happen so I created a group and assigned the CPF to that Group. I then assumed only other members of that group could edit the fields on their own profiles and view these fields on the profile of others. It seems it only does the former, leaving me wondering how to show these fields to other group members without making them public.
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By Guest posted 13th Sep 2016, 9:04 AM

Using SU to check their visibility with Guest and then test as a group member, just in case that matters somehow to the outcome.

By Guest posted 13th Sep 2016, 6:02 PM

No, this feature is simply because people in different groups may require different information on their profiles. E.g. Gamers may want Favourite Game. It's nothing to do with conveying secrets.

I'll check the description for the group choice field when adding/editing CPFs in case the purpose isn't clear.

Conveying secret information between groups within profiles would be very particular, I doubt we'd ever have a core feature like that.

By Guest posted 13th Sep 2016, 6:05 PM

Ok so it isn't clear, making this change...

Only use this Custom Profile Field for these member usergroups.
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Only provide this Custom Profile Field within the profiles of members within these usergroups.

By Guest posted 14th Sep 2016, 9:06 AM

Okay, maybe I can do something on the profile template to only show these CPF's to group members, as making these fields public in my case is pointless given they are for a specific case which is irrelevant to most members. Thanks for making it clearer.

By Guest posted 14th Sep 2016, 10:44 AM

Yeah actually, should be able to use {+START,IF,{$IS_IN_GROUP,5}}...{+END} or something around them.

#2824 - Publicly viewable CPF's and usergroup confusion

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