Last updated October 19, 2011. Created by xjm on October 18, 2011.
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Scenario
- The website is a news site with news posted in several topics.
- The published news content is available for all site users to read.
- There are several topic editors who should be able to edit existing articles in their topics.
Taxonomy configuration
Create a "Topic" vocabulary at admin/structure/taxonomy. Add terms for each news topic.

Role configuration
Create a role for each topic. In this example, we will configure access for the Music editor. (You would repeat this for the other topics.)

Content type configuration
Add a "Topic" term reference field to the core article content type, using the "Topic" vocabulary.

TAC configuration
Anonymous user role
For the "Topic" vocabulary default, set:
- View: Allow
- Update: Ignore
- Delete: Ignore
- Create: Unchecked
- List: Checked

Authenticated user role
Same configuration as the anonymous user role.
Music editor role
For the "Topic" vocabulary default, set:
- View: Allow
- Update: Allow
- Delete: Ignore
- Create: Unchecked
- List: Checked
