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We're using CiviGroup Roles Sync to synchronize our Civi Groups to Drupal Roles. We've encountered a problem however - the synchronizing seems bi-directional, and as we have several groups for each role this isn't desirable.

Our settings are like this:

Group <--> Role
Group 1 <--> Role 1
Group 2 <--> Role 1
Group 3 <--> Role 2

If someone is in Group 1 and logs in, they get assigned role 1. But then the module seems to notice they're in Role 1, and adds them to Group 2!

Is there any way to make the synchronizing just work in a single direction rather than bi-directional?

In the end I edited the file:
sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/modules/civicrm_group_roles/civicrm_group_roles.module

And commented out the contents of the "civicrm_group_roles_add_remove_groups" function to make it uni-directional syncing.

Ideally this would be patched properly and configurable via the UI, I don't know if this has already been done in the latest stable Civi however, we're behind in upgrading. I tried to look on the demo site but that doesn't show the Drupal bits.

Actually I myself don't recall anyone else asking for this feature. It doesn't exist yet and I'm not sure it will be added. Perhaps if other also expressed interest however...

Two other people were confused by the same thing when I was searching before:
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=11701.0
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=26046.0

Just seems a bit odd that the member sync is one way, but the group sync bi-directional. I guess the original author desired that behaviour. I wasn't proposing that core developers work on this, more absent-mindedly wishing I had the time myself to write a patch.

I'm supporting stuart's request to have the option to set the sync only in one direction.

In a current installation, we have both CiviCRM OG sync and CiviGroup Role sync in this settings: User added to OG > sync with CiviCRM Group > sync with Drupal Role. This works well when adding a user to an OG but there is a "conflict" between the two sync when removing a user from an OG.

This is due to the fact that CiviGroup role sync operate a two way sync, so every time CiviCRM OG sync remove an user from a CiviCRM Group, the CiviGroup role sync module add back the user to CiviCRM group instead of removing its role permission in Drupal:

Having the ability to set CiviGroup role sync in one way (from CiviCRM group to Drupal role) will help a lot in this case.

Thanks