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Letting an ACL controlled user also use Groups
July 17, 2012, 12:43:57 am
Not sure if i have just forgotten something really obvious - or if things have changed or what - but on a fairly vanilla install

I am using ACL to limit Contact A to access ONLY contacts in Group A

now if I give Contact A permission to 'edit groups' i am hoping that they will be able to create groups, and then use those groups to add contacts they have access to into.

is it expected that Contact A will not be able to access any of the groups they make - even if those groups only contain 'their' contacts?
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Re: Letting an ACL controlled user also use Groups
July 17, 2012, 06:33:03 am

yes, thats the way the current model works.

I think we need to fix / improve two things:

1. Allow user A access to all the contacts she/he creates

2. Allow user A access to all the group she/he creates

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Re: Letting an ACL controlled user also use Groups
July 17, 2012, 12:44:49 pm
Thanks for confirming lobo - will see if we can put any effort in to this, but suspect the short term will be them opting to just using Tags
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Re: Letting an ACL controlled user also use Groups
July 23, 2012, 09:33:07 pm
How about if the ACL sets Person Z to seeing Contacts in GROUP X
and there were some other Groups that had GROUP X as their Parent group
would that not make a good basis to let Person Z to access and use those Groups?
In case that is easier than letting Person Z make Groups

or ideally both

Person Z creates a Group and can set them to be a Child of any Groups they have ACL access to.

And if others make a Group and set it to a Child of one of those Groups then Person Z can also access/use them
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Re: Letting an ACL controlled user also use Groups
July 24, 2012, 06:34:08 am

That sounds reasonable

However i dont think the ACL implementation is aware of parent/child groups (ACL's preceded that), so we'll need to upgrade the ACL code to take into account parent/child groups

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