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# Profile configuration

The user profile presents the information of a user and is enabled by default for all users. Users may individually enable or disable their profile in their Personal info settings under the Personal settings section.

As an administrator you may change the default for new users and may also disable profile globally to remove all profile functionality.

Profile properties are also written into the system address book.

Note

If not disabled, the profile is publicly visible. The visibility of the individual profile attributes can be either controlled by the assigned visibility scopes (e.g. “Private” will disable public access), or by the user defined profile visibility.

## Configuration

To enable or disable profile by default for new users switch the toggle in Basic settings under the Administration settings section.

You may also run the `occ` command below instead to change the default to `false`:

    occ config:app:set settings profile_enabled_by_default --value="0"

Please refer to Using the occ command for all available `occ` commands.

To disable profile globally add the following line to your `config.php`

    'profile.enabled' => false,

Please refer to Configuration Parameters for all available `config.php` options.

## Property scopes

User properties (Full name, Address, Website, Role, …) have specific visibility scopes (Private, Local, Federated, Published).

The visibility scopes are explained below:

Private:

  Contact details visible locally only

Local:

  Contact details visible locally and through public link access on local instance

Federated:

  Contact details visible locally, through public link access and on trusted federated servers.

Published:

  Contact details visible locally, through public link access, on trusted federated servers and published to the public lookup server.

The default values for each property for each new user is listed below, but you should consult the declaration of the `DEFAULT_SCOPES` constant in the `OC\Accounts\AccountManager` class (see the code) to make sure these are up-to-date.

Property | Default visibility scope
--- | ---
Full name | Federated
Address | Local
Website | Local
Email | Federated
Avatar | Federated
Phone | Local
Twitter | Local
Organisation | Local
Role | Local
Headline | Local
Biography | Local

If you’d like to override the value for one or several default visibility scopes, use the `account_manager.default_property_scope` `config.php` configuration key, which defaults to an empty array:

    'account_manager.default_property_scope' => [
      \OCP\Accounts\IAccountManager::PROPERTY_PHONE => \OCP\Accounts\IAccountManager::SCOPE_PRIVATE,
      \OCP\Accounts\IAccountManager::PROPERTY_ROLE => \OCP\Accounts\IAccountManager::SCOPE_FEDERATED
    ]

In the above example, the phone and role properties are respectively overwritten to the private and federated scopes. Note that these changes will only apply to new users, not existing ones.

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