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I am new to CiviCRM and don't know the category for this. We have a requirement that our chapters have admins that are able to log in to Wordpress-CiviCRM, but only see members that belong to their chapter. I am using wordpress, and have set up separate chapter admins, and set up chapter roles (also in wordpress), but I don't see a way to restrict them with some sort of predefined member filter. Is there a way to do this? Are there any examples I can look at? Is there a way to have the predefined member filter appear in the roles editor options?

Hi Paul

Chapter specific control can be done in several ways.

You can use ACLs - ie make an ACL admin Group for each Chapter Admin - and restrict their access to contacts in the Chapter Group

read up on ACLs in the floss manual.

There are other approaches you can take using Permissioned Relationships - and we have extended that work so that you can multi level inheritence ie so if A has permission to see B, and B to see C, and C to see D, then A can see D.

I need to write a proper blog on that, but i expect one of the two above will get you most of what you need.

As for WP v Drupal - I can't tell you what the limitations of using WP might be but with Drupal we could give eg everybody who is an A a specific Role, Bs could have another Role, etc so that not only can eg C only 'see' D's but they could for example 'not' see $$ data, while those with Role B could.

hth