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Does Community Builder have its own cache?

CB does not do any file caching. Most caching in CBs is variable caching to prevent duplicate processing during a PHP process.

I set the Query field to public in the field type via the core ajax inline editing but made it read only in the Query field settings.

You can't edit a query field. It queries the database for results and displays them. So it has no edit functionality. Additionally you can't ajax edit a field marked read only. A query field can be displayed in profile edit, but it will just display its results like a Custom HTML field.

I set the Query plugin to Public.

That's the correct setting for plugins 99% of the time as it impacts who the plugin itself even loads for.

I set the Tab view to Registered.

This will cause the tabs contents to only be visible to registered users.


There's no access controls specifically on query fields beyond those controlled by something else. For example if you use CB Conditional or CB Privacy to set access restrictions on the query field. If you set the tab access parameter. If you set the query plugins access itself. It's possible the issue is in the query itself causing an empty result to output based off who is viewing it.