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Hi,

We work with users with different kinds roles.(look at the image i attached to this topic)
We use 2 roles (crmmanagers en crmusers).
How can a give these role the permission to 'Find and Merge Duplicate Contacts' and correct the results, without given these role the 'administer CiviCRM' permission.
Because we don't want that these roles can control the configuration. This is only for the administrator.

Can somebody help me on this ?

I'm glad to hear its possible. But with the little explanation you give me didn't bring me much further.
Are there anywhere examples to do this.
I've tried to change the admin.xml files into de CRM/core/xml/menu.
Extract the  deduperules and dedupefind menu items and put it into the contact.xml file.
And changed the callback in the xml file from 'CRM_Admin_Page_DedupeRules' to 'CRM_Contact_Page_DedupeRules'
And moved the DedupeRules.php and Dedupefind.php from the CRM/Admin directory to CRM/Contact directory.
All this didn't help me much, when i call the URL http://localhost/cms/index.php?q=civicrm/contact/deduperules&reset=1. I does do nothing and i don't get any error-message.
I'm a little stuck on this

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It works !!!  How ? Well...

1) Edit the admin.xml and add the next line in the deduperules and dedupefind item
     <access_arguments>access CiviCRM</access_arguments>
    Remark :  If you don't want that non-admin users can change the rules, do not add previous line in the
                 deduperules item. And change 'civicrm/admin/deduperules' into 'civicrm/admin/dedupefind' in the
                 following line in 'DedupeFind.php' :

                 $session->setStatus("No possible duplicates were found using {$ruleGroup->name} rule.");
                 $url = CRM_Utils_System::url('civicrm/admin/dedupefind', "reset=1");

2) Edit the contact.xml and add the next line in the merge item
     <access_arguments>access CiviCRM</access_arguments>

3) Edit the merge.php file (CRM/contact/form) and change the following line
        if ( ! CRM_Core_Permission::check( 'administer CiviCRM' ) ) {
into
        if ( ! CRM_Core_Permission::check( 'access CiviCRM' ) ) {

4) Rebuild the CRM-menu's
        Clear menu-table -> Empty the 'civicrm_menu' table in the mysql civicrm database
        Rebuild menu -> http://www.yourdomain/?q=civicrm/menu/rebuild?reset=1

5) Rebuild the permissions with this URL
        http://www.yourdomain/?q=admin/content/node-settings/rebuild

Now you can create custom-menuitems for your users. Then they can check and merge duplicate contacts without the 'administer CiviCRM' permission.
Thanks to all for helping me out.

Cheers.

I've added a blog post outlining ideas for getting this into core: http://civicrm.org/blogs/allenshaw/allowing-non-admins-find-and-merge-duplicates

There are some issues regarding ACLs, and possibly other headaches I haven't thought of.  Please comment on that blog post if you have some input.

Thanks to petbos157 for the initial ideas.

- Allen

Hi, I take it this is now in core as there is a 'merge duplicate contacts' permission now with 3.3.6, but I am still getting a permission error when a user with this permission goes to merge contacts from search results:

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What does the permission do, if not this?