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ft_drupal

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fine-grained access control for CiviCRM Contact or groups
March 27, 2008, 12:15:26 am
I have a site on top of Drupal and CiviCRM. It is desired to have fine-grained access control when sharing member contacts. For example, a chapter organizer should be allowed to access members/contacts in his/her chapter. Is it possible to achieve this with CiviCRM?
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Re: fine-grained access control for CiviCRM Contact or groups
March 27, 2008, 09:24:22 am
You can set this up using CiviCRM Access Control (ACL's) - described here:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Access+Control

Note that you'll need to create an ACL Role and a Group (with group type = access control) for each chapter - which may not scale that well for you if you have lots of chapters. We hope to address this / make configuring this type of setup easier - in a future release.
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Re: fine-grained access control for CiviCRM Contact or groups
March 27, 2008, 09:56:29 pm
Thanks, Dave.
There is still one thing not explained in the documentation.
How to relate Drupal users with a CiviCRM group?
Is it done by synchronize users and contact? 
Besides, is it true that such access cotrol is not appliable to smart groups?
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Re: fine-grained access control for CiviCRM Contact or groups
March 27, 2008, 10:38:48 pm

Advanced search has an option for:"CMS User: " (top left, below search views). You can always create a smart group based on that

You can also use the "Add to Group" option in a profile to add drupal users to a specific group during the registration process.

You can apply acl's on a smart group. Giving a contact multiple acl's on smart groups is not very scalable (since it involves multiple left join's etc)

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