CB Privacy always shows "You do not have access to this profile"

Installed the latest version of the CB Privacy Plugin 3.1. Regardless of the settings for a profile in the privacy section, the other user always gets the message "You do not have access to this profile".

I have tried every setting, and set all to public. The privacy setting for the profile I am testing, i.e. being viewed has an entry of Type Profile, Rule Public, an still get the message.

Obviously if I disable the privacy plugin, all works fine. I want to use the privacy plugin to restrict viewing of certain tabs to connections only, but if the very basics are not working, not much point going further.

Now very weird, but the very first privacy entry (Type Profile, Rule Public) for a profile worked fine, but all subsequent entries for other profiles did not. I deleted the one that worked, and then added again, and that also no longer works.

Can give you access to my site if you need to see settings.

Profile Privacy and Tab/Field Privacy are independent of one another. Profile Privacy controls access to the entire profile and not individual Tabs or Fields. You need to edit your Tabs and Fields to enable privacy controls for them. Set Profile Privacy to "Users" then login as any user and you should be able to access that users profile as it is "Registered Only" type access. "Private" limits access to the profile to CB Moderators and the profile owner themselves. Please be more specific as to exactly what privacy setting you're trying to use.

Found the problem .. it is sneaky.

The initial record for profile is written to comprofiler_plugin_privacy table with fields subtype and item set to Null and all works fine. When you use the privacy plugin maintenance facility to update the profile record, even without changing anything the NULLs become " ". As soon as this happens, the profile will no longer be displayed.

To test you can simply update a profile record using the plugin maintenance facility, and the profile will no longer be available. Not sure if the same problem exists on the batch update process.

plugin maintenance facility

I've no idea what this is. Please clarify what steps you've taken to duplicate the issue.

Wow I thought I had outlined the steps to reproduce quite clearly. View a profile that has a privacy entry in the table of "Type" Profile, and "Rule" Public ... all good.

Now update that privacy record using the maintenance facility in the privacy plugin. Change no values, just update. Now try view that profile and see what message you get.

maintenance facility in the privacy plugin

There is no such thing as "maintenance facility" in CB Privacy. I assume you mean CB Privacy > Privacy, which am able to duplicate your issue from. Will be fixed for next release. For now just don't edit a profile privacy record from there.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/4184