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Feature #13533

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Concept for controlling visibility of users

Added by Anonymous over 11 years ago. Updated over 9 years ago.

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Description

This was sparked by Mischa the Evil's comment on my ticket, #13527, so it also somewhat relates to ticket #11724.

This is a proposal for adding control over the visibility of project members. I've tried my best to keep it flexible and useful in a variety of scenarios. I find that familiarity helps users adopt and stick with new functionality, so this is borrowing heavily from Redmine's existing privacy model. Essentially, hidden or private users.

To the user model, add a privacy bool, represented by a check box on the user form. Unchecked, you have a public user. Checked, private.

To the roles model, add a new set of permissions. These are very similar to issue visibility permissions, so it might be best to use a drop-down list for this:

  1. See all users
  2. See public and related users*
  3. See only public users

A ton of visibility use cases can be addressed with this combination of per-user and per-role settings. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to completely avoid the dreaded specifics.

(*) Related users is, of course, not currently a defined concept. The most obvious definition to apply here is user groups--your member list would be populated with public users and any users that share group memberships with you if this option is selected.

Aside
It's worth pointing something out. If this user 'relationship' concept is implemented as I've described it, it could also extend to the issue visibility model, allowing users to see issues posted by 'related' users. It wouldn't fully address existing requests for a way to 'involve' users on issues (#8488), but it would be a pretty painless additional choice.


Related issues

Related to Redmine - Feature #13527: 'Display name' for usersNew

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Related to Redmine - Feature #11724: Prevent users from seeing other users based on their project membershipClosedJean-Philippe Lang

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Related to Redmine - Feature #8488: Create an 'Involve' mechanism to private issuesNew

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Related to Redmine - Feature #17747: Private rolesNew

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