Hi Dorian,
Welcome to BuddyDev forums.

The User Profile fields data visibility is stored in user meta as an associative array of field ids as key and visibility levels as value

Example
array( 1=> ‘public’, 2=>’private’ and so on) where 1, 2 etc are field ids.

Deleting the old value will make all the fields public(except if you have an enforced visibility option set foe the field).

If your goal is not to enforce a default visibility all the time, just doing it when this was not set by the user(I am assuming you deleted the meta key), we can use two approaches:-

1. Bulk update usermeta for each user via phpmyadmin and set the value for ‘bp_xprofile_visibility_levels’ as the serialized value of our expected setting

2. Or the easier route is to filter on the value of the user meta ‘bp_xprofile_visibility_levels’ and if it is empty(you deleted all, if the user updated it, It won’t be empty), we return the default fields visibility.

Which route will you like to use? Please let me know and I will assist.

Regards
Brajesh

Hi Dorian,
Thank you for the reply.

Yes, It should work fine for the REST API.

Please put this in wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php

/**
 * Ensures default profile fields visibility is used while displaying profile
 *
 * It is only applied if user has not saved any custom visibility.
 */
function budydev_ensure_default_xprofile_field_data_visibility_for_user( $value, $object_id, $meta_key ) {

	if ( 'bp_xprofile_visibility_levels' !== $meta_key ) {
		return $value;
	}

	// let us use a  static cache since the default visibilites won't change during a request.
	static $default_visibilities = null;

	if ( ! is_null( $default_visibilities ) ) {
		return $default_visibilities;
	}

	$visibilities = BP_XProfile_Group::fetch_default_visibility_levels();

	foreach ( $visibilities as $field_id => $visibility ) {
		$default_visibilities[ $field_id ] = isset( $visibility['default'] ) ? $visibility['default'] : 'public';
	}

	return $default_visibilities;

}

add_filter( 'default_user_metadata', 'budydev_ensure_default_xprofile_field_data_visibility_for_user', 10, 3 );

It will ensure that whatever you set as the default visibility for the profile field will be used for users who haven’t updated their profile data.

Please let me know if it works for you or not?

Regards
Brajesh

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