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Hi all,

I installed CiviCRM on WordPress a few days ago, and I've been exploring it. I currently have 100 contacts in my contact list. I want to allow any one of these contacts to edit only HIS/HER contact information (and not anyone else's information). Is there a way to inherently do this in CiviCRM, using WordPress?

Thanks!

Hello Pamela,

This functionality is usually accomplished via Access Control Lists (ACLs). Unfortunately this feature is not supported in current versions of Civi. The good news is that this will be available for WordPress in v4.3, due out early next year. in the mean time, I would suggest reading up on ACLs and playing around with them on the Drupal or Joomla Demo site.

Thanks for the prompt helpful reply, Jason.

I've been playing with ACL on the Drupal demo, and can't manage to find an inherent way to create a user and allow them to edit only their profile. I suppose this will take customized coding then? No problem, just wanted to make sure this feature isn't possible within Civi before I started coding it.

Thanks!

Pam

In drupal, u dont need to setup an ACL for a user to view/edit their own information

You can do this directly from the User Account screen. Drupal allows other modules to add information to the user account screens

This functionality is not part of the Civi+WP integration. I'm not sure if WP allows the above also

lobo

Wow! Thanks Donald! If that's the case, then I can just use Drupal instead of WordPress. Do you know if this is also the case for Joomla, or is it only this way for Drupal?

I guess on the Civi Drupal demo site, the user account screen is inaccessible as I had a hunch to look there but was unable to find access it. I suppose I'll just install Drupal and Civi on my server and check it out on my install.

if u r logged in as demo, check:

http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/user/

lobo

Very nice! Thanks a bunch, Donald! Regarding the post linked to by Jason about v4.3, does this mean that this same capability of being able to allow a user to edit his/her own profile will be available using WordPress?