Introduction

With the Member Privacy Settings API you can override the default privacy status of site members' profiles. For example, if the default status is private, you can switch the privacy settings to public, so that users could have an ability to make the profiles public. Use this API to quickly switch the privacy settings for all site members at once.

With the Member Privacy Settings API, you can:

• Set the member privacy settings.
• Retrieve the member privacy settings.

Overriding the default privacy status

If you call the Member Privacy Settings API, new settings are applied for the current members of the site, overriding the default status. For newly signed up members, only the default status is applied.

• Example for using the Default Privacy Status API together with the Member Privacy Settings API when the site's default privacy status is PRIVATE:

  • Call Set Member Privacy Settings to update the privacy settings to PUBLIC. Current members can now choose to make their profiles PUBLIC. Newly signed-up members will have private profiles by default but can change their profiles to PUBLIC individually.

• Example for using the Default Privacy Status together with the Member Privacy Settings API when the site's default privacy status is PUBLIC:

  • Call Set Member Privacy Settings to update the privacy settings to PRIVATE. All current and newly signed-up members can't make the profile PUBLIC.

Terminology

• Member privacy settings: Settings that determine who can see site members' profiles and who is allowed to make member profiles public.