I need to make access control based on term_reference of nodes and users

By hakeem on 7 Feb 2012 at 15:47 UTC

Hello,

I have a drupal 7 website with the following structure:

a vocubulary: "Color"
which has terms: (red, blue, green).
nodes
which has a term_reference field related to "Color" vocubulary.
user profile (from durpal core):
which has a term_reference field realted to "Color" vocubulary.

I need to apply access control so that:
only users with term_reference = "blue" have access (full: view/edit/delete and view in other lists) to nodes with term_reference = "blue", and so on.

Is this possible without using Taxonomy Access Control module and converting term_references into roles? Is there any modules that I can use? Or should I write a custom access control module? What is the best practice?

Thanks in advance

Comments

Why not use the taxonomy

nevets commented 7 February 2012 at 15:53

Why not use the taxonomy access module?

Thank you nevets. Well, let

hakeem commented 7 February 2012 at 16:12

Thank you nevets.

Well, let me explain more.

The main classification domain in my website is "Color", which applies for both nodes and users. If I use TAC, I should make pairs (term, role) for every color, and this is impractical because there is many colors (> 50) in the vocabulary and they increase by time, in addition to the time and care required to set up taxonomy-based permissions for each role in TAC.

Therefore, I'm thinking of using term_references to Color terms as the only single way for any association between users and nodes.

I hope this explanation is clear.

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WorldFallz commented 7 February 2012 at 16:02

seriously-- it's the whole point of taxonomy_access which has now been adopted by acquia so will likely receive solid maintenance and support.

In any case, you can also use rules to automatically create a role for a term or if you don' already use rules, there's the single purpose role_vocabulary module as well.