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Access control for Group and associate contacts ...
March 26, 2008, 08:57:06 pm
Is it possible to set access control for our Drupal anonymous users to access CiviCRM contacts that are part of a specific CiviCRM group I've created.  I want them to see one group's contacts, but not other contacts in our database.  When they view the Contact listing, I don't want them to click on "Search Results" and get the entire database. 

Currently I'm trying this as anonymous user and I see all the contacts.

Installed on Drupal 5.7, and running CiviCRM 1.9.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Access control for Group and associate contacts ...
March 26, 2008, 08:58:59 pm
Actually, I just found this support doc on the forums:

http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,1386.0.html

I think this should answer my question(s)!  Let me know otherwise, or if there's other info out there.

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Re: Access control for Group and associate contacts ...
March 27, 2008, 09:19:31 am
That post covers the exact 2 approaches you can choose from :-)
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Re: Access control for Group and associate contacts ...
March 27, 2008, 02:18:56 pm
Yes, well I posted another support request.  Neither post seemed to help.  I created the "smart group" but then got stuck.  Still don't see how to output the search listing/results of just "organizations" to my anonymous users.  I only want anon to see the organizations and not the other contact types.

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Re: Access control for Group and associate contacts ...
March 27, 2008, 06:12:18 pm
Did you read about using Profiles here:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Profiles+Admin

... and then looked at the "Limit Listings to Group" field under Advanced Settings.

If you've got a profile that Limits Listings to your smart group (which is only Orgs) - and then give anonymous role the "profile forms and listings" permission (drupal admin >> user >> access control) - that should do it for you.
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Re: Access control for Group and associate contacts ...
March 27, 2008, 07:06:26 pm
Profiles seems too confusing.  I may try it eventually.  However I think I've figured it out using CiviCRM Access Control (ACL). Here's what I did:

1) Disable the default Drupal access control for viewing contacts, profiles, etc. so it wouldn't interfere

2) Create an ACL role for Anonymous users

3) Create a new ACL that has VIEW permissions/operations to view "a group of contacts" and give this ACL the role of "Everyone" so it includes anonymous users

Well, I'm not sure this is the best method, but I logged out and tried accessing the data as an anonymous user and it's only showing the group data I wanted (not all the contacts) and only allowing VIEW permissions so it appears to be working now.

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Re: Access control for Group and associate contacts ...
March 27, 2008, 09:02:15 pm
Profiles work great!  Thanks for the heads up on that.  I created a profile to use as a search form and list generator.  However the issue I'm running into now is that my pre-form help text is displaying in the PREVIEW mode but not in the actual "live" view, when I view the form page as an anonymous user.  The search form works, but the pre-form help text does not show up.

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Re: Access control for Group and associate contacts ...
March 28, 2008, 08:56:22 am
Can you try to recreate this problem on our demo site - http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org - and if it recreates please post an issue to our issue tracker (link is above).
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