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Access Control not Available in Joomla! Installations
Access Control functionality is not available for CiviCRM in Joomla! We expect to address this in a future release.

Permissions, Roles and Access Rules

Section Contents

Context and Overview 

How Access Control Lists (ACLs), Roles, Permissions and Access Rules work and are used   

Drupal Access Control  

Modifying Drupal Permissions, Roles and Access Rules

Default Drupal Access Control Settings 

Drupal Permissions and Roles default settings

Manage ACL Roles

Create and edit the different ACL Roles needed for your site

Manage Access Control Lists (ACLs)

Access Control Lists define Permissions and grant that Permission to a Role

Assign Users to Roles

Assign Roles to Groups

Multi-Level Organization ACL Permissions

Delegating responsibility for groups of contacts to chapters, etc.

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