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I would like to set up CiviMail so that only members of certain groups can use it, and so they can only see their own group's mailings in schedules and reports. I'd also like them only to be able to see certain target groups when creating a mailing. For extra credit they should only see a subset of the available templates. Are any of these possible?

Finally, just to pile on multiple questions into one posting, I'm unclear whether CiviMail can be driven via API. I see references to a SOAP interface, but can't find any details.

TIA.

You should read up on CiviCRM ACL's. Basically this can be driven by restricting what groups a set of users / contacts can see, which in turn restricts the mailings they can see etc

Sounds good. I am reading up on various aspects of CiviCRM, and still learning which parts are shared with core and which parts are specific to CiviMail and other modules.

there is no acl support for templates

parts of civimail can be driven by the API, but this is mainly restricted to features like subscribe/unsubscribe/optout etc. There is no API to send an email etc, but a contribution to do so would be great

If I can control which groups a sender can see, and which sent email reports they can see (based on the group the mail was sent to), I may not need an API. But it might be useful for other reasons, in which case I will happily build and contribute. I will probably end up at least adding ACL support for templates.

Quote from: outinsun on September 16, 2008, 08:27:17 am

If I can control which groups a sender can see, and which sent email reports they can see (based on the group the mail was sent to), I may not need an API.

Well, rats. After further experimentation, I'm not sure this will work for me after all. I need senders to be able to send to the same group of recipients, but not see each others' mailings. I am starting to see a CiviMail API in my future after all.

For the time being, I can get by if I can restrict access to the mail reports page (civicrm/mailing) to a select administrative group, and let all the sending groups access civicrm/mailing/send only. Any suggestions on how to do that?

You'll have to hack the code and add in permissioning to assign different permissioning string to the two urls. In 2.1 you can do part of this in the xml menu files (templates/Menu/Mailing.xml). You'll also need to add another drupal permission CRM/Core/Permission.php, function basicPermissions( )

hop onto IRC (http://embed.mibbit.com/?server=irc.freenode.net&channel=%23civicrm&forcePrompt=true) and ask questions etc if / when needed

lobo

ok, thanks.