LiveWhale allows you to set privacy options on dynamic content including pages, stories, events, forms, blurbs, profiles, and blogs. The privacy options affect who can see your content. By default, content is publicly visible to all site visitors, but you can restrict it in a few different ways.

Content with any setting other than Everyone will not show up in search, API results, or widgets by default. If you do want to limit certain events to logged-in users, make sure your theming includes a way for them to login using Login Links.

Privacy options also affect how LiveWhale generates your sitemap.

Everyone

Default behavior, content is available publicly to all site visitors.

Logged-in users only

Content is available to any logged-in user—including any LiveWhale editor as well as any SSO user.

Note: if someone tries to visit content with this setting, they’ll be redirected through the LiveWhale SSO connection. If any successful login handshake is made—even if the username doesn’t match a LiveWhale user account—the content will be shown.

Limited Visibility (3.0+)

Events with this setting appear normally in calendar list and widget views, but certain details (by default: location, online registration info, and any RSVP forms) require SSO login to see. Any editor can apply this setting to an event.

Customizing Limited Visibility

If you’d like to show/hide different fields for Limited Visibility events, that can be configured site-wide by adding this line to your client config file via SFTP:

$_LW->CONFIG['LIMITED_VISIBILITY_FIELDS']['events'] = ['location', 'online_url', 'rsvp_form'];

You can customize this list to show or hide other fields. The full list of supported fields:

• summary
• description
• url
• source
• location (also hides location_title , location_latitude , location_longitude , location_id )
• cost
• rsvp_form (also hides has_registration , registration_owner_email , has_wait_list , registration_limit , wait_list_limit , rsvp_total , rsvp_waitlist_total , registration )
• online_url (also hides online_instructions )
• contact_info

Anyone with the link

Once the item is saved, content is only available to visitors who have the direct URL.

Removed in 3.0: “This group only”

The This group only setting from 2.x has been retired. Because it only surfaced content to logged-in LiveWhale editors for the group, we found the audience was too limited to be broadly useful for front-end content. If you have a use case that requires this behavior, it can be reproduced via a custom module.