Display exhibit information w/o showing content

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I’m looking for a code-based solution for a semi-published state for an exhibit. is there a way to (relatively easily) display the existence of an exhibit (title, thumbnail, etc) but not have the content viewable? any advice on this front is greatly appreciated!

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Probably the easiest option is to make the exhibit actually private, then directly access the database to get the data you want to show for the “semi-published” state.

$db = get_db();
$table = $db->getTable('Exhibit');
$privateExhibits = $table->fetchObjects('SELECT * FROM `$db->Exhibit` WHERE public = 0'`);

By writing out a query instead of using the built-in methods for finding and fetching records, you bypass the normal permission checks. Then as long as you just only use the $privateExhibits array for printing the limited data you want to show, the exhibit will remain actually private.