Email privacy is a setting that allows users and or admins set the option to hide their email address across their digital workplace. This includes hiding it in the api responses as well. In some cases this can cause some unwanted pain for developers who really need the email address to make use of it's uniqueness in the Igloo platform. We all know you can change the privacy settings in the UI but what if you have 1000+ users? You probably want a more programmatic solution right?

What you need:

First you will need to get the id of the users you want to update privacy for. This can by done by inspecting the DOM or, keeping with the theme of automation, you can get a list of users by using our APIs . Once you get the ids for the users  you can move on to the next step.

What to do:

Igloo has 5 different options that can set for profile privacy settings. Unknown = 0, Public = 1, Members = 2, Contacts = 3, Nobody = 4, in our case we will be using number 2 so that only members of the site can see the email address for users.

Notice the email privacy setting for this user before running our code. It's set to have Nobody access it.

  getObjectById = (id) => {
    const endpoint = `https://my.domain/.api/api.svc/objects/{id}/view`;
    axios.get().then((response) => {
      const result = response.data.response;
      console.log(result);
    }).catch((err) => {
      console.log(err);
    });
  };