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Support => General => Topic started by: cdss on August 07, 2009, 20:51:12

Title: Protecting Private Profile Information
Post by: cdss on August 07, 2009, 20:51:12

Hoping for some help with a community aspect of our website.  We are granting people memberships to our website which allows them to view exclusive content and write on our forum.  Elxis allows users to customize their profiles to include contact information.

By default their email address is also displayed as part of their profile.  This means that when members click on the "members list" it allows them to view other members emails.  Due to privacy issues, we do not want the emails to display.  We would also like to disable additional contact fields such as AIM, MSN, etc.  I wanted to know if there was any easy way to hide this information.

Issues:

1. Hide e-mail addresses from profile.

2. Disable extra contact fields: AIM, MSN, etc.


Our website is located at www.cdss.ca  and to log in please find the login form at the bottom left hand column entitled "Admin Login" and use the username "membership" and password "membership".  The user menu appears in the top right corner and contains the link "Member list".

Note that even if you disable the link to the "Member list" there is still a hard coded link to it when you edit your profile and users can click on other user's profiles from the forum posts.

Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Re: Protecting Private Profile Information
Post by: xmanhattan on August 08, 2009, 10:22:15

cdss,

You can simply unpublish the member list through the user menu.

Title: Re: Protecting Private Profile Information
Post by: datahell on August 08, 2009, 18:39:43

Administration -> Components -> Softdisk -> Check sections: User profile and Users list

Title: Re: Protecting Private Profile Information
Post by: cdss on August 11, 2009, 20:14:20

Unplublishing the User List from the Menu will not be sufficient because we have a forum aspect, where you can click on anyone who posted and view their profile.

How does the softdisk work? I've tried to find reading materials on it and come up dry.  If I delete something from the softdisk will it cause problems?

Thanks again for your help.

Title: Re: Protecting Private Profile Information
Post by: cdss on August 31, 2009, 20:33:11

Does anyone have detailed information on how Soft Disk works?  In older versions of Elxis it was easier to edit user information using CSV Files and you could import and export them?

Can you still do this in light of the Soft Disk?  Any documents on how Soft Disk works would be helpful?

Title: Re: Protecting Private Profile Information
Post by: datahell on September 01, 2009, 08:47:21

What exactly you dont understand in SoftDisk? What you want to do?

Title: Re: Protecting Private Profile Information
Post by: apkoutsou on September 05, 2009, 11:51:15

Just change the value of field UPROF_EMAIL to NO. This tells the system not to display user's email on his profile...

SoftDisk is a way for the admin to pass some core variables into Elxis, without hard-coding. So just change the values of the relative fields to get the desired result.

There is no softdisk-specific documentation for the moment, but you can find some hints searching elxis wiki...

Title: Re: Protecting Private Profile Information
Post by: cdss on September 08, 2009, 21:30:43

Thanks for your help that solved the problem.  Really appreciate it.