By TheGorf on
So somewhere I read a how-to about how to get taxonomy going to allow multiple users to edit the same content. I'm a bit shocked that it is so complicated to get something like this working in a robust system such as Drupal.
For reference I have a website with about 2 dozen pages and growing. I need to give users permissions to edit certain groups of these pages depending on who the user is. I've been digging in the search now for an hour and I either come across forum entries like mine with no response, or pages that aren't related to what I actually want to do.
So could someone post some linkage for me on how to do this? Like I said I know i've read it before... but I don't know where it has gone.
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Before going into that taxonomy access solution, consider using a wiki for that group of users. Things evolve and there are now at least two Drupal solutions using a wiki for group editing. Check this discussion.
http://drupal.org/node/171009
The method you are referring to is probably the Taxonomy Access Control module (http://drupal.org/taxonomy_access)
Categories:
- In /admin/content/categories, set up a vocabulary for the group-edited content (optional). This is optional because you can use an existing vocabulary. The only thing that matters is that the vocabulary must apply to the "group-edited" content type(s) you want.
- In /admin/content/categories, add categories (terms) to the vocabulary you created, such as "Team" or "Team 1" (optional). This is optional because you can use existing terms of existing vocabularies with which the nodes are already tagged (topics or anything).
User roles:
- In /admin/user/roles add a user role for the editors group.
- In /admin/user/user assign this role to the users you want. (This role doesn't do anything special yet)
Standard Drupal access settings:
-In /admin/user/access, make sure that your new user role has "access content" permissions as well as "edit" and "edit own" permissions for the content type(s) of your "group-edited" content.
TAC access settings:
- In /admin/user/taxonomy_access, edit your new user role. Open the vocabulary(ies) you want one by one, and give your user role "View", "Update", "Delete", "Create" and "List" permissions for the appropriate category(ies).
The "Update" and "Delete" permissions are for editing anyone's posts under that category.
The "Create" permission is for being able to tag new nodes with this category, so that the nodes get into the group.
The "Default" settings are the settings for all future categories which will be created in this vocabulary.