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I've set up Drupal 5.3 with CiviCRM 2.0a3 and have been playing around with it.  It's very nice, but I have one question.  I'm trying to set up CiviCRM profiles to capture user information when they create a new account on the Drupal website.  I intend to expose the profile information in a "directory listing" (most likely via the CiviNode module and Views) that way people can search for each other via the website.  However, I'd like to allow each user to specify how much of their profile is listed in the public directory.  For example, we would like to capture their home address for contact purposes (both by administrative staff and members of the community).  Some people may not wish this information to be displayed publicly, so is there a way we can allow the user to specify, on a field-by-field basis, that access to that particular information be restricted to a particular group or made private?  I know that as an admin, I can specify fine-grained ACLs, but is there a way for users to do this by editing their profiles?

I've read through the profile information in the online manual, but saw nothing immediately obvious.  Any pointers would greatly be appreciated!

Good to know.  Thanks for the reply!  Is this something I should put in as a use case or feature request?

Ok.  I'm not too familiar with CiviCRM and it's not a crucial feature for the project so may be a little while (months) before I can roll a patch but if I come up with something, I'll definitely file it.