I have some players who won't update their profiles because they don't want the contents of their mail/bags/bank inventoried. Is there a way to set this on the server-side for individuals, or is it up to the user to NOT open their bags?

Yes
You go to Roster Config.
Once logged in, you can disable the showing of bags, banks, money for everyone by choosing "Character Page"
You can disable it for specific users by going to Per-Character Display.
Keep in mind though you'd have to do this manually for each user with this request and any time they create an alt.
I just chose to disable displaying money for members as a whole. Lots of sensitivity issues between the "have money and the ain't got crap" crowd.
As far as bags go, i had a member ask to not have his shown. Told him straight up that we needed it for his max resist information as well as *being aware* of his gear capabilities. And it's not like he's gonna have animal porn in his bag that he needs to be worried about people seeing.

if you turn of the display of the bags the max resists can still be calculated because the information is still in the database.

Diska wrote:if you turn of the display of the bags the max resists can still be calculated because the information is still in the database.

I figured as much, but I didn't tell them that

I've scanned the forums and keyword searched this, and this seems to be the most appropriate thread discussing this.

I have a similar problem, people wont upload because they dont want contents of bags, banks and money show, so I've been to the Character page to turn off these items, but then a request came in to turn thise on, ( bags and bank) for the guild banks, but on the individual characters page, in the Per character display, I assumed I coudl just turn these to On for the bank characters, but they are on.

I take it th eprior is an overide global setting,

can i confirm then if i want to do this I need to turn the global setting for bags and banks on again, then set all characters ( ie the whole guild except the banks) to off apart from the banks.
If so, thats a hell of a lot of clicking,

is there a simpler way ?

Thanks in advance

Simpler still. Leave that off globally, parameter guildbank on per-character view -not table view-, and put the required characters as banks.

I hope this helps...

did you hear that in the distance, the distinct sound of a forehead beign slapped.

of course, the guild banks display displays bags and bank contents, DOH

Glad to help! Need aspirin? ;-)