You do not have access to this profile

Running Joomla 2.5.11 and CB 1.9.

I always work as a Super User and it was not until recently I found that if I search for users and then click on their profile, I receive the message "You do not have access to this profile" for every level of user except Super Users. Where could this be being blocked?

I will give access if necessary.

Thank you.

Bill

Navigate to Cb > Config > User Profile and ensure you have profile access set correctly. If already set correctly then see if you have CB Privacy present and perhaps the users have protected their profiles using profile privacy field; disable CB Privacy plugin to test if this is the case if it is present.

Thank you. It was the CB Privacy plugin.

Do you have a place where you thoroughly explain the various settings of the CB Privacy plugin?

Thank you.

Bill

Do you have a place where you thoroughly explain the various settings of the CB Privacy plugin?

Nope, they're pretty self explanatory. Field privacy controls view access to fields. Tab privacy controls view access to tabs. Profile privacy controls view access to the entire profile. By default it all should be public so you would've had to set the default higher than public or your users changed it themselves within profile edit.

I would be happy to answer any more specific questions you have about it though.

Thanks. I appreciate this very much.

How do I know what "Normal CB Settings" are? Is this set somewhere?

When you say "Profile privacy controls view access to the entire profile", do you mean in the Configuration Manager > User Profile tab > Allow Access to field?

When I go into my profile to update it, under Contact Information, on the first line there is no field title or field, but all the way on the right is a button with what looks like a globe and then it says Public. So I'm guessing that is indicating that the default is to give public access the profile. Then at the bottom, there is a field title "Profile Privacy" and the appearing selection has a lock on it and says "Private". I read the information on the field which says "this determines who can see your profile ....".

That leaves me scratching my head. I don't know how my Profile Privacy got set to Private and I'm not sure what the top-right selection with the world is.

Thanks, Kyle.

How do I know what "Normal CB Settings" are? Is this set somewhere?

"Normal CB settings" is as if CB Privacy isn't even installed. It's a way of not having privacy controls for a tab/field. All tabs/fields are set to this by default (so no privacy controls by default).

When you say "Profile privacy controls view access to the entire profile", do you mean in the Configuration Manager > User Profile tab > Allow Access to field?

No, it's the "profile_privacy" field as configured in CB > Field Management and as seen/set in profile edit. It's disabled by default so you would've had to enable it already.

When I go into my profile to update it, under Contact Information, on the first line there is no field title or field, but all the way on the right is a button with what looks like a globe and then it says Public.

That's tab privacy to control the visibility of that specific tab on your profile.

So I'm guessing that is indicating that the default is to give public access the profile.

For that specific tab, yes. For your entire profile, no.

Then at the bottom, there is a field title "Profile Privacy" and the appearing selection has a lock on it and says "Private". I read the information on the field which says "this determines who can see your profile ....".

Correct, this is entire profile privacy as the description implies. You have your entire profile set to Private so no one but your self or CB moderators can access it.

That leaves me scratching my head. I don't know how my Profile Privacy got set to Private and I'm not sure what the top-right selection with the world is.

You either set it as Private, edit the field and set the Default value of it as Private, or someone else did (another site admin perhaps?). That field is not enabled by default so you would have had to of configured it at some point unless another developer is involved that perhaps has done this for you.