Make 'share my details' consent per person, not per group

jefft commented 2 years ago

Jethro's killer feature (IMO) is its ability to act as an address book, letting church members find contact details for each other. I think 'online church directory' functionality could be greatly enhanced by making 'consent to share' a per-person, rather than per-group.

The model Jethro currently supports is of a church-wide Church Directory. Users who have given their consent to share details are added to a Church Directory group that has the 'Share member details' flag set:

This 'church directory' model works, but has limitations:

How is consent obtained for new members? It must be part of some out-of-Jethro onboarding process.
How can users change their consent? "Yes I was happy sharing at first, but now this creepy guy is stalking me" etc
Church-wide sharing is too broad. I would like to share my details with just my bible study members, or people of serving groups I'm part of. There's no reason for the rest of the church to know.

'Consent to share' is fundamentally a per-person datum. I would like 'consent to share' to be a per person, per group flag set in the member portal:

or possibly also per-congregation:

The existing group 'Share member details' group flag should have its meaning altered from will share to could share:

Only groups with the repurposed 'Share member details' flag would appear in the 'Share with these groups' drop-down.

tbar0970 commented 2 years ago

tim-pearce commented 2 years ago

I second this. I am going through our (printed) church directory and notice that some people don't have all their details published. I was thinking more along the lines of a 'private' flag against phone, email and address.

tbar0970 commented 2 years ago

I was thinking more along the lines of a 'private' flag against phone, email and address.

That's one more level of complexity :) I might be happy to share my home address with one group but only my email with another...

tim-pearce commented 2 years ago

I was thinking more along the line of a blanket private flag and was only thinking in terms of the address book. This way around it could be an attribute of the group that says if 'private' information can be viewed by the group. But then my original idea was purely related to whether it appears in the address book (or other 'public' places).

tim-pearce commented 2 years ago

I think I will raise a separate issue as my suggestion is at a slightly different angle.

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