Author Topic: How to limit a user to only accessing contacts he has created (Read 651 times)

innovafire · October 04, 2011, 08:03:22 pm

I am seeking to make up a site where individuals can keep track of their own contacts individually. I am using Drupal 6.22 and CiviCRM and I am just starting out on this. The problem is that there seems to be no way built-in of keeping everyone's contacts from each other. If I search for a contact made by another person, I can see it and I don't want that.

Looking at the DB structure, I see that the civicrm_contacts table has no column for "contact created by", and so I am assuming this is the first problem (which keeps me from making a custom view to accomplish my ends on this).

Does anyone have a successfully used workaround for trying to accomplish this? Or any ideas?

Thanks.

Chris

xavier · October 05, 2011, 01:39:38 am

Use the ACL hook to alter the where close and limit to the contact the logged in user created.

The data about creator/editor is stored in civicrm_log, Not sure from the top of my head there is a clear distinction between the two, but in your case, shouldn't make a difference.

Share the code if you succeed, seems like a fun idea.

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innovafire · October 05, 2011, 09:01:31 am

Thanks for pointing me to the table where the info is stored.

I get the concept of what you are saying I should do, but I have little knowledge relative to creating the module necessary to take advantage of that hook.

Any tips you could throw me as far as accomplishing this?

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