How can I let members set the privacy of a field?

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Hi

This is my first post on here and first site I’m building using Wix. I’m certainly no expert when it comes to building websites but I have done it before and do have some knowledge and understanding of things like HTML.

I’ll get to the point. I want to give site members the ability to change the privacy of certain fields. So for example. A field named “Surname” is set to Private by default but if they want to make this visible to people they can simply change the privacy to “Public”.

I have had a look online and everything seems to be about how I change a fields privacy which is straight forward and not what I am looking for.

Thanks in advance.

Stephen

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There is no out of the box solution to change individual fields to be public/private.
You would need to custom code this functionality.

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This is a bit complex, especially using Wix’s Member system

Wix uses its own default member data collections, with their respective access permissions, those are not controllable or editable

For that, you will need to create a new CMS collection for any extra data you want to save about your users - such as their privacy choice

So, let’s say we’ve made the collection called Members, set its permissions so that only the record owner can view data, and within it, we add a text field called surname, a boolean field/column called publicSurname and the _id column is set to the same id as in Wix’s member collections

You will need to set up client- and server-side code to securely fetch the details if the requirements are met, something along these lines:

Dynamic Member page:

import { getSurname } from 'backend/members.web.js'

// Assumptions for mock code:
// #surname is a text element, hidden by default
// #dynamicDataset holds the member data

const dataset = $w('#dynamicDataset')
dataset.onReady(() => {
    const member = dataset.getCurrentItem(), // the member's public data
        surname = await getSurname(member._id)
    if (surname) {
        $w('#surname').text = surname
        $w('#surname').show()
    }
])

backend/members.web.js

import { Permissions, webMethod } from 'wix-web-module'
import wixData from 'wix-data' // alternatively, use @wix/data

export const getSurname = webMethod(Permissions.Anyone, async memberId => {
    const member = await wixData.get('members', memberId)
    if (member.publicSurname) return member.surname
}