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Protecting Entries and Subtrees

You can protect entries and protect subtrees. These cause slightly different outcomes.

Protect an entry

When you protect an entry, neither registered nor public users can read it. It can, however, appear in a list result if the user can access the parent.

This occurs because the protected entry may have subordinates that are visible to the user.

Protect a subtree

If the same entry has protection as a subtree, a registered or public user cannot read it, and it does not appear in a list result as a subordinate entry.