By droshani on

How can I hide the list of online users from public view?

There are currently 1 user and 16 guests online.

Online users
Admin

I want to hide the Online users list.
Is that any way to short the text to "1 user and 16 guests online." to appear on one line at the top?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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Ashford’s picture

Ashford commented

I don't use the "Online Users List" feature; however, I have found most of those types of functions are displayed as a Block. You can make a block visible to specific Roles.

admin>site building>blocks

Find the block and click [configure].
Look for "Role Specific Visibility Settings".
Check the boxes.
Scroll down and click the [Save block] button.

droshani’s picture

droshani commented

I wanted to keep the number of people on the site visible to everyone but just hid the the second part which list the names of users online from Public. I does not seams you can do this.

May be next version Drupal 7.x should allow to costumes this further.

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Bananoide commented

If you want to take out the online users list just block>configure on the block and choose 0 on the field that says "extension of the list"

I have a rather more complex problem in hands. I want users to be able to hide themselfs from that online list but not to remove the list itself.

Anyone knows how to solve this one?

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Ashford commented

I am using Drupal ver 5 and still consider myself a beginner. Here is what I would try on a test site. Maybe someone more experienced will offer a method to do the same thing without hacking the module's code.

admin/user/profile
Use the Profile module that comes in Core to create a field for "online_list".
Do you wish your UserName to appear on the on-line list when logged in? Yes - No

Add custom lines to the module that generates the online users list.

// Get the preference value
   $val = $profile["Personal Information"]["profile_online_list"]->value;

   If $val == 'yes' {
      // whatever the original module's code is to add the UserName

  }