Important: Profile synchronization ignores the visibility window 

Description 

The profile synchronization keeps hidden profiles and profiles of disabled frontend users up to date, see Feature: Synchronize hidden profiles and Breaking: Profile synchronization now includes hidden profiles and users. Profiles outside their start or end time, and profiles restricted to a frontend user group, were still skipped: the profile update command did not find them and never updated them. Frontend users outside their own start or end time were not selected by either command.

Both commands now ignore the whole visibility window:

  • academic:updateprofiles finds a profile regardless of its hidden flag, start time, end time and frontend user group and updates it from its frontend user. Of these four, only the ones the profile table declares as enable columns in the installation are ignored. Any other enable column stays in effect.
  • academic:createprofiles and academic:updateprofiles select frontend users outside their start and end time.

Deleted profiles and deleted frontend users stay excluded. The synchronization still never changes the visibility of a profile: hidden, starttime, endtime and fe_group keep their values, and a profile outside its window stays invisible in the frontend. The Show hidden records plugin option lifts the hidden flag only, as before.

The $showHidden argument of \FGTCLB\AcademicPersons\Domain\Repository\ProfileRepository::findByFrontendUser() now lifts all four enable fields. It exists for the synchronization and is not meant for display.

Impact 

Profiles outside their visibility window are updated on the next synchronization run. Profiles restricted to a frontend user group are included, because a command-line run has no frontend user group that could match. A frontend user outside its start and end time gets a profile on the next create run.

To exclude a profile from the synchronization, use its Disable profile sync checkbox ( skip_sync ), not its visibility.

Affected Installations 

Installations that run the profile create or update command and control the visibility of profiles or frontend users through start time, end time or frontend user groups, for example from a directory import.