Privacy

Im curious if anyone else is experiencing the same issues as me.

Currently when a member sets their profile privacy to members only, certain items are still visible to the public for example the fact they are online, the menu items in the drop down see attached screen shots. 

I would have thought that if a member sets their profile to members only then ALL items in their profile would be hidden.... so have i missed something or is this a glitch?

thanks K

This is where my "Train Wreck" theory tends to bear some truth. The Privacy settings are all over the place and I'm not sure that's entirely necessary.

    1. Look in Admin/Settings/Privacy Settings. It would seem that each of the modules and the profile can be made private here. I made Photos private and I'm not sure what it actually did. In the absence of a manual, you'll have to experiment with that one.

    I also switched Profile to Members only and the profile button disappeared from the main menu. That was a good sign. It also removed a few other buttons, but I'm not sure which.

    I then made Events Member's only but the button also stayed in the menu and it works to a degree. There's a "Join" icon  where the Albums icon usually is, but if any photos appear they're live.

2. The next derailed carriage is your profile. In every box there's a yellow key. You may have to go through all the boxes and change the Public key to a Members Only key.

3.Then there's the Albums. Each album can be made Private, members or public. That's easily done when you create a new album, but quite a pain when changing the setting for an existing one.

4. Finally the Caboose!  Got to Settings/Dashboard (Initial Settings) Item 8 Permissions. Click on Non Member and disable all the actions that may be causing problems.

On another site I use, all these items are readily accessible by Admin, but most importantly they have a single setting - Public or Membership site. Just choose the one you want and the public is faced with a walled garden. (Nerdy term).  I thought Dolphin had the same, but it's so hard to remember where to find things in the chaos.

Thanks Demmy

In the end i just set all profiles to members only view. Their seemed to be a glitch or something when profiles are set to be publicly viewable and a member chooses to remain private their online status and other items such as friends and items in the drop down can be viewed still. 

Ideally i think there should be a way for members to be able to select what content they want viewable to the public/members/friends no matter what we as administrators choose, so if a member chooses to remain private then nothing connected to their profile/membership should be viewable to anyone not given permission to do so.

They do that by setting the keys in each of the profile blocks. You as admin can also group questions so that certain ones can be hidden by members. For example, you could have a section called Fees and allow the user to hide it to everyone except friends.

Alternatively tyou can let members decide what questions they fill in. Elgg allows members to decide what answers are shown to whom, but I turned that feature off in fear that some members would hide the lot.