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Hi,
I am using CiviCRM latest stable on Drupal 7.

I want to achieve the following scenario using ACL:

-All registered users can edit all contacts EXCEPT contacts in group E.
-Group E is only accessible by a subset S of all registered users

This seems like a very basic setup, and after reading about it from your documentation and forum, there seems not be any easy solution? I hope I am wrong.


Bear in mind that I mean all contacts in my scenario, even UNGROUPED ones. I face several problems trying to implement ACL if there are ungrouped contacts. To me it seems you can't set any ACL properties for ungrouped contacts.

Ungrouped contacts are easily made, for instance if user accidentally forgets to assign group. Also, if user enters company information in "add new individual", then CiviCRM automatically creates an organization without a group.

Adding a smart group to be included in ACL that include non grouped contacts did not work, I received DB errors and odd navigation menu related behavior.

What would be the easiest way to do this? Adding own profile, where groups are always assigned? Or do I have to code my own hookups to force grouping?

Thanks for the reply!

We talked about this in IRC, and I decided to add own hooks to add default group for newly added contacts.

However, I found out that in multi-site installation, there is a possibility to add default group for new contacts. So my question is as follows: could I just edit the civiCRM settings file and enable multi-site even if I currently have only one site? This way I could easily have default group for new contacts.

In the multi-site installation document it states that "do not go to any url before enabling multi-site in settings". So should multi-site be enabled only on fresh new civiCRM installations or can I just turn it on even if I have used my site as non multi-site?

I have to add own hook even if using multi-site. It seems no default grouping is added for automatically created organizations (like, when creating a new individual and I enter company information).

I think u can turn it on later

Yes, you can. Although it won't retrospectively group contacts.