Field is set with the "Visible" entry as "Personal" yet on the front end it shows the visibiity setting as "public"

Hi, Andrew.

You mean it's visible under "About me"?
I tested it on my site and tried to view profile with ordinary user - fields are not visible as set in backend.

No I think it may be a "design issue" - it seems that for every field you create for a profile, it always get displayed by default with the "public" access (I have put in a request that we should be able to set the default rather than having the default as always public.)

The issue here is that for something that is set on the back end as being "Personal" only, although you are correct that it does not show up to anyone else if set that way, it is very confusing for a user to know what the privacy actually is. It would make good design and UI sense to have any variable that is set as Personal on the backend to then be set as "Private" on the front end and not allow the user to change it (since any other setting makes no sense.)

I do get the feeling that when it comes to "privacy" this is something that hasn't really been fully understood by the design team at JomSocial, despite the claims of how important you understand it to be!

Hi, Andrew.

You see, I as support staff don't have any influence how system will be designed. So every remarks or ideas to improve features should be directed to PO (Product Owner) or post as feature request:

uservoice.jomsocial.com/forums/101561-feature-request
www.jomsocial.com/community/groups/viewg...stions-for-the-staff

There a little sense to post it on forum as I can't do anything about it - I'm sorry.

Thanks - I rapidly ran out of the ability to post feature requests as there seems so many "quirks" in the design logic (or not!) of this product!