Body: <p>(CiviCRM 4.6.20, Drupal 7.50)  </p>
  
  <p>I have had zero luck trying to get this functionality to work.  Here is the setup:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Created a regular (not smart, didn't want to add that level of potential caching complication yet) group of contacts (let's call it Test Group) to which a specific user should have access.</li>
  <li>Created a group for access control, and added that user to the group.</li>
  <li>Created an ACL role and linked it to the group for access control.</li>
  <li>Created an ACL for editing the Test Group of contacts for the ACL role created in the previous step.</li>
  <li>Logged in as the specific user and can only see the user's own contact record, not any others.</li>
  <li>I have the View All Contacts and Edit All Contacts Drupal permissions turned off for this user's Drupal role, and I even tried turning off the view/edit own contacts Drupal permissions, all to no avail.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>There must be a step I'm missing but I've reviewed a lot of documentation and I just don't see where I'm going astray.  If anyone has used this successfully, can you please point me in the right direction? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,
  Lesley</p>
  
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2016-09-16T18:02:00.443Z
Comments.Text: Are either of your groups child groups of another group? I had that problem - making them independent groups solved the problem.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Jamie
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2016-09-27T20:28:17.340Z
Comments.Text: Unfortunately these are not child groups - thanks for your response and sorry for the delay in responding on my end.  :-)
Comments.UserDisplayName: Lesley Carter - BackOffice
Tags: <acl>
Title: ACLs on groups of contacts
ThreadText: # ACLs on groups of contacts
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-09-09)
  
  (CiviCRM 4.6.20, Drupal 7.50)
  
  I have had zero luck trying to get this functionality to work. Here is the setup:
  
  * Created a regular (not smart, didn't want to add that level of potential caching complication yet) group of contacts (let's call it Test Group) to which a specific user should have access.
  * Created a group for access control, and added that user to the group.
  * Created an ACL role and linked it to the group for access control.
  * Created an ACL for editing the Test Group of contacts for the ACL role created in the previous step.
  * Logged in as the specific user and can only see the user's own contact record, not any others.
  * I have the View All Contacts and Edit All Contacts Drupal permissions turned off for this user's Drupal role, and I even tried turning off the view/edit own contacts Drupal permissions, all to no avail.
  
  There must be a step I'm missing but I've reviewed a lot of documentation and I just don't see where I'm going astray. If anyone has used this successfully, can you please point me in the right direction?
  
  Thanks in advance,
  username_0
  
  **Tags:** acl
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Are either of your groups child groups of another group? I had that problem - making them independent groups solved the problem.  
  > **username_0**: Unfortunately these are not child groups - thanks for your response and sorry for the delay in responding on my end.  :-)  
  
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