Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Help understand users and groups

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

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Hi Dave,

 thanks for your reply.

>> Dave Hall <address@hidden> writes:

 > > PS: My apologies in advance if my explaination isn't clear enough,
 > > I've got a cold and I can't think straight.
 > 
 > I feel like I have missed something.  

 Yes, I explained myself rather unclearly.

 Let me try with an example:

 There are two users, Joe and Martin.  Both are in the group GW.

 There are several categories for the calendar events: vacation (someone
 goes on leave), talks, special events.

 Joe adds an event to the calendar: category talk, participants himself
 and GW.  At this point PGW *expands* GW to "Joe, Martin" and stores
 that information in the database.  If you look at the event information
 it says "participants: GW, Joe, Martin".

 The problem I pointed out in my previous mail is that if I add someone
 to WG *after* creating the calendar entries, the new members can't
 access the information (or at least that's the way it looked when I
 tried).

 Now the source of my confusion:

 In the calendar, if Joe selects User: Joe he can see the event and read
 its details.  If he selects User: GW he can see the event but he can't
 read it.

 Another example.

 Joe goes on vacation and he adds an entry for that in the calendar.
 The idea is that Martin (and the rest of the workgroup) can see that
 Joe is on vacation.  Joe's vacation is a public event but GW doesn't
 take part in it.  The question is how do you achieve this.  In
 Preferences, Calendar, Grant Access I can modify ACLs for Joe (what
 does that mean? Traditionally ACLs on objects specify who has access to
 the object, does "ACL: Joe" mean "access control for Joe's data"?).
 Joe can mark add Read access to GW.  If he does this, Martin has a new
 entry in the "User" menu named "Joe".  If he clicks here, Martin can
 read Joe's activities.  As you can imagine this is not the intention.
 What I would actually like to have is a way to see "who's on vacation
 in the workgroup".

 What I want to do ultimately is having activies in which only one
 person takes part, but are visible by a larger set of people
 (attendance to conferences, vacation) and also activities in which no
 user takes part but are of interest to the workgrop (list of
 conferences for example).  Is there a simple way of achieving this?

 Thanks for your time,

 Marcelo