Adding role permissions to CiviCRM profiles

February 28, 2011

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Profiles can be used to collect and expose data from CiviCRM. One common scenario is to display a membership directory. Recently, one of our clients wanted to use several different profiles to present different aspects of their membership directory based on groups, tags and a few custom fields. However, we wanted to restrict who could access those directories.

A few years ago, we did something similar using a theming function in Drupal. It works fine, but not really optimal since it's tied to the theme and it's not easy for the client to update as they add new profiles. The Linking Profiles wiki also outlines a way to use CiviCRM hooks.

We took this idea one step further and turned it into a Drupal module: CiviCRM Profile Permissions. Once installed, the permissions for each public profile can be restricted by role at admin/settings/civicrm_profile_permissions.

http://drupal.org/sandbox/dharmatech/1142650

Feel free to leave a comment or tweet if you find this module useful.

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Contribute on d.o?

Submitted by FatherShawn (not verified) on March 1, 2011 - 8:28am.

Will you be adding this to contrib at drupal.org?

If the community needs it

Submitted by jason on March 1, 2011 - 9:20am.

We're happy to keep this at d.o if there's a need. It didn't seem necessary since there's little room for added features with this module. We also didn't want to add a module that doesn't have a clear path going forward. It provides a great function at the moment, but this could easily get pulled into core.

Thanks for the comment fathershawn.

d.o.

Submitted by jason on April 29, 2011 - 2:02pm.

This module now lives in the sandbox on d.o. We will consider promoting as a full project if we get folks using it.

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