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glink53	More Control of the Who's Online List?		Lead	[-]
Posts: 6 4-Nov-09 3:57 PM	Tags : None Hey folks, One of my boards family board is a very small and private family board. I now have it set so that one forum is visible to the public while the others require family members to be accepted and become visible after their initial post. The problem I would like to solve is the Who's online list. Is there a way to make this available only to members instead of showing to the general public as well? Currently I have turned it off as I don't want anyone and everyone to be able to click on those names listed and gain access to their profiles or have them bothered in any way. I could always go back to a completely private MBA setting but I hate that the only thing you see before logging in is that 401 Error message. Any solutions or suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks Gary
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Silver Dollar		#1	[url]	[-]
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 1988 5-Nov-09 6:57 AM	Your members do have the option of being Anonymous: http://support.yuku.com/topic/13196 Then, you have an admin option that allows you to control who can view your board Anonymously: http://support.yuku.com/topic/13197 http://support.yuku.com/topic/6926 As you can see there, one of the options is to allow only Community Members to view anonymously. If you choose that setting, your members who do not want their profile name to display on Who's Online can set their account preference to Anonymous. They will then just display on Who's Online as "X Anonymous" (with "X" being the number of Anonymous viewers at the board). If that isn't an adequate solution to your problem, there isn't any setting that would make Who's Online display to members only, but you might be able to accomplish that by using CSS. You can post in the Domain Skins Assistance forum about that, or we can move this topic down there for you. If you would like us to do that for you, just let us know. [edit: typo -SD] Last Edited By: Silver Dollar 5-Nov-09 10:04 AM. Edited 1 time.
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1992casey		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2205 5-Nov-09 8:33 AM munificent member	One thing to note about CSS is that the solution is cosmetic. Anyone who wants to view Who's Online could do so by viewing the page source code or turning CSS off. Still, if you hide it via CSS, the huge majority of visitors won't think of those things. Whether CSS is the way to go would depend on how crucial your desire to hide Who's Online would be. Last Edited By: 1992casey 5-Nov-09 10:46 AM. Edited 1 time.
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Silver Dollar		#3	[url]	[-]
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 1988 5-Nov-09 10:05 AM	Thanks, casey.
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glink53		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6 5-Nov-09 2:10 PM	Thanks to SilverDollar and casey for your replies. The board is a very small board comprised of family members of various ages with lots of 60+ folks. For lots of them, just logging in to a board is a new (not to mention confusing) experience...lol. Although I am aware of the anonymous option, this would be confusing to most as well as defeating the purpose of them being able to see who in the family is online at the time. After posting this I believe I have come up with a kind of backdoor solution for those members that really do want to show they are online. I will just suggest that they click on the chat room forum and their names will be visible to others who are logged into the board in the "Who's chatting" category box. It's not a perfect way to do it...just easier and a more familiar step to those who just don't navigate past the basics! Again thanks for your help and quick response. I depend on and read this support forum on a regular basis and it has been fantastic for insight and problem solving issues!
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1992casey		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2205 5-Nov-09 4:01 PM munificent member	It sounds like you've already done this, but if your chat room is private, only your family members will see it.
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