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Greater visual distinction between private and public profiles

Erica Howton

August 17, 2011 21:24

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the green blob is not enough.

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  Philip James Decker, Ͼ August 17, 2011 23:59

  Are you asking for an explicit designation of Private/Public, rather than a symbol whose semantics may be unknown to the casual user? 

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  David Christopher Sutherland August 23, 2011 08:16

  I am having trouble trying to allow 3rd parties see my tree. When I select 'edit' from the tree view and then check the box on the setting to "public profile" the check-box is not  checked when I come back to look at it again.  I must manually go to the 'profile' view first for each individual and change their settings manually.  

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  Dan Cornett October 19, 2012 12:32

  The real need for a visual distinction, I think, is needed on the Tree View.  Even if this waits until the HTML 5 tree view, there needs to be something clearly obvious to show "this is a private profile, not a public profile" ... especially for "my" private profiles (ones I can see the details of them).

  Something like rounded corners vs. square corners on the boxes.   It's o.k. to retain the "greyed out" box for those I can't see the details within (i.e.: private profiles managed by others), but it would help everyone to see 'at-a-glance' which in the tree are private vs. public.

  Sure, if there are a lot I want to change, using the "Family" --> "Lists" will let me do that, but the visual indication would be a (nearly) constant reminder of the 'state' of the profiles.

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  Philip James Decker, Ͼ October 19, 2012 18:16

  Dan: You find the green frame around the photo field of public profiles insufficient?

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  Dan Cornett October 19, 2012 19:47

  Is that what that means?  I thought it meant recently modified!!

  It is a little subtle ... but, perhaps more importantly, the "help" (e.g.: the "i" button at the bottom) does not explain all the "symbols" on the tree, and especially does not explain the colors around the profile picture (e.g.: blue='a member's profile', green='Public', purple='Master Profile', nothing='private'  ... is that all of them?).