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I'm looking to restrict some access to content on my site to members - this was one of my many reasons for choosing a CRM/CMS combination.

After some research, I've found that the best way to do this seems to be using Drupal's Organic Groups module. I create an organic group on Drupal, and the contacts sync with CiviCRM. Easy.

Unfortunately, I'm starting from a database of contacts sitting on CiviCRM - and my workflow is such that most of my contacts come into the system through the CRM manually.

As I understand it, CiviCRM/Drupal og-sync only goes from Drupal to CiviCRM, not the other way round as detailed here:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Organic+Groups+CiviCRM+Synchronization

Unfortunately I'm not a programmer and don't have access to funding to get this feature developed.

I would appreciate any thoughts on how to get from CiviCRM to Drupal in terms of user access. In addition, I hope Messrs Lobo and Greenberg acknowledge this as a vote for a feature request - with gracious thanks for the work on the current system.

Thanks for the reply Lobo.

I guess I'll have to look into importing names of users into the Drupal database for the moment on a weekly basis...

Has anyone thought about going down the 'user role' route rather than the 'groups' route? ie user 'y' is role 'x'. The 'nodeaccess' module can restrict access to content on a website. I guess this would still mean going down the same pathway of having a bunch of Drupal users synchronising with contacts on CiviCRM.

Not knowing much about what's involved, this is all blind speculation - just throwing a few ideas around - that's all.

Cheers,

Jim.