# User card and profile page of staged users
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [1월 3, 2017, 8:06오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092 "2017-01-03T08:06:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [1월 3, 2017, 8:06오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092/1 "2017-01-03T08:06:20Z")
Hi,
In our forum if one click on the avatar of a staged user, he is directed to “you don’t have access to this page”.
Is there any setting to resolve this?
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [9월 7, 2017, 8:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092/2 "2017-09-07T20:07:46Z")
What would you like to see here, and who should see it?
I think this is working correctly and as I would expect:
- staged user profiles are not visible to the public or to regular members. They see “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.” This is correct.
- staged users ARE visible to staff. This is correct.
The one thing I’d like to see is some label or indicator that the user is staged - right now as staff on my site I can’t tell a user is staged except for the fact that the location and user info provided via SSO are missing. Maybe simply grey out the name like in the admin user list?
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### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [9월 7, 2017, 8:34오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092/3 "2017-09-07T20:34:27Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> The one thing I’d like to see is some label or indicator that the user is staged
this is perhaps a more trust-based approach, than the `no-access or not-existing error`.
another alternative could be simply the user page showing that a user has never logged in; this information exists in the user page, `Seen`. so if the user profile page which is visible to admins is shown to others, everything would be all right.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [9월 7, 2017, 8:39오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092/4 "2017-09-07T20:39:05Z")
I’m not sure about your setup, but on my site showing staged user profile pages to the public or other members would not make sense. The staged users are being created because people are writing to a team mailbox that then is creating the staged user and PM with the discourse group. Not everyone writing to this address is already a member or plans to become a member, so it would be bizarre for them to have a profile page.
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### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [9월 7, 2017, 8:42오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092/5 "2017-09-07T20:42:42Z")
👍 agree, and that’s why I said your suggestion seems better to me than the current solution:
→ The one thing I’d like to see is some label or indicator that the user is staged.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [9월 7, 2017, 8:43오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092/6 "2017-09-07T20:43:32Z")
ah - got it. sorry, didn’t read carefully enough. 👍🏽
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [9월 7, 2017, 11:43오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092/7 "2017-09-07T23:43:08Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> The one thing I’d like to see is some label or indicator that the user is staged - right now as staff on my site I can’t tell a user is staged except for the fact that the location and user info provided via SSO are missing. Maybe simply grey out the name like in the admin user list?
This is a very good point, @zogstrip can you take this? Maybe show an email glyph next to them to indicate “email only staged” with a tooltip too.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [9월 9, 2017, 6:48오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092/8 "2017-09-09T18:48:03Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Maybe show an email glyph next to them to indicate “email only staged” with a tooltip too.
Sounds great. Maybe this could be avatar flair with a little email glyph and tooltip, also visible in messages and other places?
Another simpler thought I had today was to create a badge with flair for staged users, which would just require an sql query and no coding. It also makes it easy to see who the staged users are via the badge page. But then I’d not want to show that badge to anyone but staff.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [4월 20, 2018, 5:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092/10 "2018-04-20T05:29:08Z")
I see there’s an email glyph on the user card for staged users now - thank you!
But on the user profile page there is no indication yet that the user is staged. Could this be added?
See screenshots.
 
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [4월 20, 2018, 10:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092/11 "2018-04-20T10:20:40Z")
Hmm that is odd we should indicate staged on that page too cc @zogstrip
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [4월 20, 2018, 3:43오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092/12 "2018-04-20T15:43:03Z")
Not sure how that one got unnoticed for so long… 🤔
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b489edac1d3be8173916c922720b958276fd996f](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b489edac1d3be8173916c922720b958276fd996f)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [4월 20, 2018, 11:57오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-and-profile-page-of-staged-users/55092/13 "2018-04-20T23:57:26Z")