» posted on 4:06pm - January 09 2009 | posted by Lev
I'm posting this in the web site concerns forum because it probably isn't relevant to most people, or unnecessary.
But for me, it definitely comes in handy with maintaining the site, and it may come in handy for a few of you as well.
Simply put, I've added support so that access lists can now be synchronized to another access list.
In other words... Let's assume I create three access lists; A, B, and C.
Now, let's say that I spend a good 30 minutes compiling list A, as it is very large. Now let's assume we want to reuse that list and don't want to manually recreate it. Here is where syncing comes in handy!
Instead of having to recreate the contents of list A inside list B and C, all you have to do is synchronize list B to list A, and synchronize list C to list A.
Now, whenever you update list A, your changes are saved to all three lists at the same time. Anytime a user is added or removed from list A, the same action is instantly reflected on lists that are synchronized to list A, so you will never even have to touch lists B and C ever again.
For general use, this may not be important, since you can already avoid access lists altogether and change the access of a module to "friends only", but for some situations it is REALLY handy.
For example: special access sections. Since the "staff only" section relies on an access list to grant access, it would be sloppy and irritating to have the same list there three times (for read access, item access, and post access). Instead, only one list exists (read) and the item and post lists are synchronized to the read list. 
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