How to setup "Private" Interests

DavidHart :

If the interest is for an email subscription, then I would not even make it visible on the constituent interests page. You just put it in the Administrators Only security category to make it invisible to users and then assign it as the interest associated with the email campaign that you are sending them. A recipient can then opt out in response to the email even though it doesn't show up in his profile. This is a pretty common scenario.

If you want it to appear in the profile for a select group of users, then you need to put it in a security category and create a group that represents people who can see it.

1. Create a security category, call it "Can see my interest", change the default value of the permission "View Content" to "Cannot view content".

2. Create a group called "People who can see my interest", make it a user security group, and give it "View Content" on the "Can see my interest" category.

3. Create your interest (called "My interest" obviously) and put it in the security category "Can see my interest".

4. When you do your upload initially, put everyone in the group "People who can see my interest" and also flag them with being interested in "My interest".

Dave

This seems to work exactly as we want it. It gives the constituents that we had chosen to be in the Interest/Group the ability to Opt-Out or re-Opt-In!

Thanks