Simon, the privacy settings you're referring to are: Everyone / Members / Contacts / Nobody. Members is a new setting that restricts the information to members of the community. Setting it to Everyone will make the information available to anyone who can browse the community. If the community is set to be Private so that everyone must sign in first, then you're safe.
Even if you make one or two pages Public (via Access interface) and that page shows one of your members, the Anonymous user will not be able to click on their profile (tyring to craft the URL manually will send them to the Sign In screen). The profile card (pop-up) will not show either.
The ONLY way to circumvent this is (in conjunction with the above step) to change your Member Directory application to be Public (again via Access interface). Only then will anonymous users be able to visit member profiles.
The short answer is: if everything in your community is private then there is NO DIFFERENCE between Everyone and Members privacy setting.
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If privacy is set to everyone in a memeber profile it may overwrite the private setting but it does not by default. In the control panel under settings->public/private access once can select Member Profile Access. The default is Members Only. Which means even if a user sets their profile to everyone it will still be restricted to members of the intranet.
Simon, the privacy settings you're referring to are: Everyone / Members / Contacts / Nobody. Members is a new setting that restricts the information to members of the community. Setting it to Everyone will make the information available to anyone who can browse the community. If the community is set to be Private so that everyone must sign in first, then you're safe.
Even if you make one or two pages Public (via Access interface) and that page shows one of your members, the Anonymous user will not be able to click on their profile (tyring to craft the URL manually will send them to the Sign In screen). The profile card (pop-up) will not show either.
The ONLY way to circumvent this is (in conjunction with the above step) to change your Member Directory application to be Public (again via Access interface). Only then will anonymous users be able to visit member profiles.
The short answer is: if everything in your community is private then there is NO DIFFERENCE between Everyone and Members privacy setting.
Thanks for the clarification. I'm comfortable with that.
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