By marco deluca on Sunday, 10 November 2013
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Okay... hello developers. Here's a question that you may not know the answer to yet:)

For the forthcoming release of GROUPS in easysocial, do you know how you intend to use Joomla's ACL for this? I'm asking because I need to figure out if/how I can integrate your group functions with several of our custom-built components.

I need to know if/how your group functions are going to give users the ability to manage roles (nested groups within a group). We need to be able to create groups that have ACL roles within that group. So for example, one user would create a group:

BUSINESS GROUP ABC
- Administrator
-- Manager
--- Registered Member


And then another user would create:

BUSINESS GROUP XYZ
- Admin
-- Manager
--- Member


and so on. If easysocial groups does that natively, then you've saved me a LOT of time and effort. If not, we want to continue using easysocial but we're going to have to find some sort of non-hack method of allowing greater ACL control within groups.

And again, I realize its tough to talk about a feature that does not exist yet, but I do appreciate any insight you can provide.
Hi,

Groups in EasySocial will just be basically on the frontend part in the form of "pages" and it is just a circle with members in it.

ACL however is implemented on Profile level (per uses basis). In EasySocial, we use our profile system to control access.
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Sunday, 10 November 2013 13:08
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In EasySocial, we use our profile system to control access


But you're using Joomla's ACL to do this right? I'm not sure what you mean though. When a user creates a new group, are you creating Joomla groups?
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Sunday, 10 November 2013 17:58
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Jason Rey wrote:
Hi,
Groups in EasySocial will just be basically on the frontend part in the form of "pages" and it is just a circle with members in it.
ACL however is implemented on Profile level (per uses basis). In EasySocial, we use our profile system to control access.


So are you saying that EasySocial Pages and Groups will be modeled after the Google + Pages and Circles paradigm used in Google +?
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Monday, 11 November 2013 06:46
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Hi Randall,

Yup we are inspired by that idea.

Users might be confused between "ACL groups" and "EasySocial Pages Groups". Please take note that it is 2 different thing entirely. EasySocial Groups are pages with multiple users in a circle.
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Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:28
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