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RYL_FDH

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Using ACL roles User can't see sub-groups
August 24, 2010, 01:18:07 am
Hey everybody,

I set up groups for different cities in which my organization operates.
For each city i created a "city-group" (only the city name) as a parent group, and different groups (Management-Board, supporters, etc..) as "sub-Groups".
Now I set the permission for the leader of the city group to see all contacts in this group. (via ACL-roles)

But the city-leader can only see all the contacts (for they are all in the city group), but only the city group (and not the sub-groups).
How can I fix that?


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Re: Using ACL roles User can't see sub-groups
August 24, 2010, 07:35:02 am

are you doing this via hooks or via the UI?

if via the UI, i dont think the ACL UI knows about parent groups and sub-groups as yet. Depending on the number of cities, your best bet will be to do this via a hook. Much more scalable that way

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Re: Using ACL roles User can't see sub-groups
August 24, 2010, 03:11:22 pm
I didn't realise that - I thought the civicrm_group_contact_cache table (from memory) held smart group memberships and sub-group memberships. It certainly seems to in the multisite implementation.
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Re: Using ACL roles User can't see sub-groups
August 24, 2010, 03:57:08 pm

yes it does that, but what groups are included in the parent group etc are not known the the UI based ACL system as yet. Would be great if someone contributes code to do this aspect and/or sponsors the core team to work on ACL improvements (suspect its a 20-40 hour project)

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Re: Using ACL roles User can't see sub-groups
August 24, 2010, 03:59:17 pm
Ok - I didn't realise that - I've never had cause to use sub-groups via the UI but I had assumed that it would work like the person who started this thread suggested.

But, you are saying hook ACLS & CiviMail DO understand the sub-groups?

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Re: Using ACL roles User can't see sub-groups
August 24, 2010, 04:08:04 pm

acl hooks are dependent on whos implemented the code. the multisite module that we developed for circle/gmvco does understand it

civimail uses the contacts from a group, so it does not understand (or care about) sub-groups. the underlying groups code takes care of contacts in a sub-group are part of parent group part etc

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