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ACL Population
December 19, 2014, 06:04:50 am
Hi CiviForumers,

We're using the ACL for our new search function (determining which teacher can see and search by which alumni). We've encountered the following issues:

1) We don't know the conditions under which the ACL is regenerated, or is meant to be being regenerated.

2) The ACL cache needs to be repopulated each time the search page is loaded.

3) Unrelated events seem to wipe the ACL cache (and we're not sure what populates it). For example, deleting a group, any group, even of entirely unrelated individuals, seems to purge the ACL, and break our search.

We're considering at the moment writing our own cache table to prevent issues 2 (notable performance hit) and 3 (outright bug). Entries would be created and removed depending on the status of the student's relationship to the logged in school.

What are your thoughts here?

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Re: ACL Population
December 19, 2014, 09:02:41 am

Most / all the acl code was written in the 1.x / 2.x time frame (i.e. 6-8 years ago) and i suspect is showing its age / scale / inexperience at the time of writing :(

Would be good if FF could restructure and clean up the current cache structure, rather than introducing a new cache table. Will help both FF and the larger community

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