What is List Availability?
List Availability is a property that determines whether an entity is available in automatically created lists. Possible values are:
Public: The entity is available in automatically created lists
Unlisted: The entity is not available in automatically created lists
All entities — except editorial selections — have the List Availability property.
How List Availability works
Editorial selection side
Editorial selections allows automatically selecting entities by:
Entity types
Tags
See Create and manage an editorial selection and Create and manage an editorial selection (localized) for further information
Entities whose List Availability is Unlisted are excluded from the selection; only the Public ones are included.
Conversely, entities that are manually added to the editorial selection display regardless of their List Availability value.
Front-end side
The front-end gets lists of entities through the FORGE Distribution API. E.g., the front-end can get the 10 most recent stories with the news tag.
Entities whose List Availability is Unlisted are excluded from FORGE Distribution API results; only the Public ones are included.