Hi, I need content related to regional offices to editable only by that office but viewable by everyone, including anonymous users. If I set up exclusive rights based on a category does that mean users have to be given the right to view content tagged with a category? If so I can't default anonymous users to be able to see the content so I can't do what I want with tac_lite, I think?

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Dave Cohen commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Tac_lite deals with view permission only. There is a more fully-featured module, http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access, that supports other permissions.

I have not supported edit permissions in tac_lite because I dont see how to do so and keep it "lite" (both the configuration, and the underlying data). But also, I've never needed the added complexity. I find tac_lite combined with Drupal's built-in access control usually suffice.

For example, consider creating two privacy-related vocabularies, one called "privacy" and another called "region". Privacy contains terms like "public" and "administrator only". Region gets terms like "north", "south", ... If you give a privileged user access to only "north", they can tag nodes "north", but never "south" (they can also read all nodes tagged "north"). If the node is tagged both "north" and "public", everyone will be able to view it, even users who cannot see the term "north".

That scheme may or may not work for you. If not, consider taxonomy_access.