Please hide the cloaked Zoom link until 30 minutes before each event?

I love that Heartbeat cloaks our Zoom links! But (at least in the browser version) if a member is savvy enough to click each zoom link in advance, let it redirect, and then copy the URL that it redirects to, then they’ve got the actual link. Most people won’t think to do this, but if I schedule my events far in advance, then people could join my membership, click to resolve and save all of the Zoom links in advance, cancel their membership (or I remove them from the membership if they’re problematic), and they’ll still have all of my Zoom links. I haven’t been able to find a workaround yet.

I tested this yesterday. I created an event, and it showed this cloaked zoom link: https://community.thiswayoutcoaching.com/eventRedirect/21225e6b-3e06-4f16-8a3d-e9e304282d33?uid=MzNkYWU0MmYtYjU1ZC00YjM1LWJmZjYtNDIzN2I0YTk0NDM4

I logged into a test member account that I’ve been using, clicked the cloaked link, and it redirected to the real Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/84066930479?pwd=prxkixWj7c6CZhJiarNEOFQfVtEmXm.1#success

I copied and saved the redirected link, and then removed that test member from my community. Naturally, the cloaked link stopped redirecting to the real Zoom link, which is great, but the redirected link (which I had saved in advance) still worked perfectly.

I also had the idea to change the password on the Zoom event from within my Zoom account, but since I can’t update the Zoom link in Heartbeat, this will cause it to ask EVERYONE for the password.

If Heartbeat simply didn’t show a URL at all until 30 minutes before each event, then members couldn’t click, resolve, and save the real URLs very far in advance, which I think would solve this well enough. If I need to remove a member less than 30 minutes before an event (unlikely), then I’ve got big enough problems that the URL is not a huge deal.

Alternately, if there was a way for me to update the URL that Heartbeat redirects to, then I could change the password in Zoom, and then update Heartbeat to use the new URL instead.

I tested it in my browser on my Windows 11 laptop and also on my iPhone.

Thanks everyone!

Product Area
Events
What problem does this solve?
Keep members from saving Zoom links in advance

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Date

About 8 hours ago

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Mary Clark

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