Author Topic: How to apply access control to "smart" groups? (Read 1326 times)

ft_drupal · March 30, 2008, 01:30:51 pm

In my application, I want to apply access control to groups that constantly get new contacts/members.
Since access control cann't be used on CiviCRM Smart Groups, is it possible to write database triggers to automatically add new contacts to a "normal" group and apply access control to such group?
This is just try to work around the access problem for smart group: make a normal group, use tiggers to make it smart. Will this work?
Thanks!!!

Donald Lobo · March 30, 2008, 01:51:51 pm

Just to clarify, there are TWO groups involved in access control

The first group is the group of users to whom an ACL (access) is granted. i.e. any user belong to this group will have the associated permission. This group CANNOT be a smart group

The second group is the target group. This is the group that users in the above group (first group) can view/edit (depending on permission). This group can be of either type (static or smart). We are aware that there is a scalability issues if you have lots of smart groups. Specifically if one user has an ACL to 5+ smart groups, the resulting query will be quite complex (and potentially very slow). Rob Thorne has a potential workaround / fix for this (we are awaiting details on it)

So i suspect in your case the current acl structure will work.

lobo

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