Can I Override/Fake User Access Control & Permissions

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Can I Override/Fake User Access Control & Permissions

Post by andypooz » Wed Aug 03, 2022 10:49 am

I have a client with a SaaS type product that I've developed for them. We currently have 2 different sites that I'm combining into a single joomla installation with the idea that they can access a suite of products. This has had the effect of making UAC very difficult, as I need to base their access on 2 different criteria:
1. Their level of access (company admin, consultancy admin, consultant, advisor)
2. Which products the organisation they are linked to are subscribed to (this will change, and I don't want to have to update every user when their company subscribes/unsubscribes to/from a product.
If I am to use the joomla core UAC system to control access to menu items and interfaces (and that's what I'd prefer) can/should I create a user plugin that looks at their user group and also whether the user's organisation is subscribed to a product and assigns access levels based on that.
If I had the following user access levels:
Product A Company Admin / Product A Consultancy Admin / Product A Consultant / Product A Advisor
Product B Company Admin / Product B Consultancy Admin / Product B Consultant / Product B Advisor
Product C Company Admin / Product C Consultancy Admin / Product C Consultant / Product C Advisor
Product D Company Admin / Product D Consultancy Admin / Product D Consultant / Product D Advisor
Product E Company Admin / Product E Consultancy Admin / Product D Consultant / Product E Advisor

I'd much prefer to just have 4 user groups that I would assign to users in the usual manner:
Company Admin / Consultancy Admin / Consultant / Advisor
and assign each user to the correct access levels on login based on that user group AND their organisation's subscriptions WITHOUT creating a specific user group for every user access variation.

Put another way, can I have user access levels set up where only super admin users are members, but override this on login based on their user group and checking the subscriptions of their organisation?

nb. I have my custom organisation component already created that has a companies table, a company_users table and a company_products table. I just want to be able to use this to help control the Joomla user access levels system.

Is this doable, and is it advisable (or am I missing a far better approach to this)?
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Re: Can I Override/Fake User Access Control & Permissions

Post by Per Yngve Berg » Sat Aug 06, 2022 10:14 am

1) An Access Level can contain several User Groups.
2) Child User Groups will inherit permissions from their parents.

Adding/removing User Groups from the Access Level should do the trick.

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