When public users create a MyGiza Collection, it should be private by default, not viewable by everyone. @lukehollis

[lukehollis]

When public users create a MyGiza Collection, it should be private by default, not viewable by everyone. @lukehollis

Originally posted by @npicardo in #151 (comment)

[lukehollis]

For this issue, if it seems correct, I'll add a new Boolean field to the Collection model called public that can be toggled by a user in the Public group while managing their Collection. There isn't a place for managing this field as a Public user in the templates currently, so I'll add one near the Collection title unless anyone has another place that they'd like this field to go.

[npicardo]

@lukehollis A toggle for Collection owners to make a Collection public/private is great!
A practical question: If we get a lot of users, would it make sense to only allow Admins to have public Collections? If any public user can make Collections public, could we be setting ourselves up for an impractically large number for browsing on the front end? Meaning, should we opt to make just the Project-curated Collections public? Or just go to town now and cross that bridge when we come to it later?

[rsinghal]

It's a lot harder to go from anyone can make things public to just admins than the reverse. Also, if another user is relying on a public collection made by another user and then that user makes it private, that could confuse users. I think the ramifications of implementing this needs to be thought through. My suggested would be to make non-admin collections private and Admin collections public.

[npicardo]

Thanks, Rashmi, that gets to the heart of my question.
Let's please do go with only Admins with public/private toggle, with Public users only able to create private Collections.
@lukehollis

(Maybe someday off in the future we'll be able to consider an update to MyGiza by which Collections themselves can be organized, sorted, searched, as a way of allowing user-generated public Collections that's manageable. Definitely for another day...)

[lukehollis]

Sounds great, and glad we talked though this--if it sounds okay, I'll try to include this in #151.

[lukehollis]

Admins can now mark their collections as "Public" in the admin backend.