Hi,

yes you can create the Friend role and use that role for page access permissions. I'm not so sure about your question related to privacy levels and roles as they are not connected in any way other than by business rules to compile relationship filters. If you were talking about the privacy level - Friends, you can't set the privacy level on user but you need to set the privacy level on e.g. user profile field and only then this field is exposed to your friends.

Please elaborate your question a bit more so we can provide you with better answer.

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I suppose, more specifically, say you were to let your friends have access to only certain parts of your profile, how would you programatically make that role?  (example publishers, administrators, have certain access, "friend" access role)

Thanks.

You can add access control functionality on that pages, and access control should check (early in the page life cycle) if user accessing the page is friend of that profile owner user, if so allow access if not reject the access. It's not a good practice to create a friend role as users can friend or unfriend at any time.

You have MonoX BLLs that can be used to check if user is friend with some other user and that can be used for ACL.

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