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Hello friends,

I am fairly new to CiviCRM / Drupal and this is my first post. I need some advice on how restrict Event configuration permissions within a multi-branch organisation. Essentially we have say 100 branches who organise Events and recruit Volunteers to send to other branches Events. I have arranged for each contact to have a Branch Code and each Event to have a Branch Code. I figured out how to use the aclWhereClause hook to restrict a Branch Admin's access to his/her own Contacts and the Contacts from other Branches who have registered for his/her Events. That seems to work nicely!

I was rather hoping there would be a similar hook in the Events configuration permissions. I just want to remove the Configure / Disable links in the Event Summary and Manage Events page where the Admin's Branch Code does not match the Event Branch Code. I am not sure of the best way to tackle this. Any pointers would be most welcome.

Cliff

The hook_civicrm_aclGroup did not really do what I wanted, but your advice led me to more documentation and to think about other ways of doing things. Using the aclWhere hook in the way I indicated was never going to work properly, but I found an easier way to get the listings I needed. I think I will have to produce custom code to handle our Events because they don't fit the standard concept of an Event (Volunteers can select up to 6 in order of preference and they are selected to ensure a good mix of characteristics), but I will come back on that when I know enough to ask the right questions.

Cliff

Hi Lobo,

To be honest I have forgotten exactly what the problem was - other than it was my logic and lack of familiarity with everything CiviCRM has to offer. I was trying to combine lists of things that a user has permission to edit with lists of things that a user has permission to view. The combined lists had edit links where they shouldn't. I later realised it was best to keep the lists separate. I may come back to this when I have found the edge pieces to the jigsaw puzzle. Things are a bit complicated because I need to develop something for both Joomla and Drupal.

Cliff