By gbanse on

Hello,
Drupal newbie here so please bare with me.

I've downloaded and installed the Taxonomy Access Control module but it doesn't seem to like v4.6.2 - or at least I don't see any obvious signs of the module's existence other than in Admin > Modules and Admin > Settings

I have enabled the module in both locations.

I have not installed the patch as it looked to me like the patch was intended for v4.5.X

How should this module work? I can't see a way to implement it.

TIA
Gregg

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Dave Cohen commented

Gregg,

Have you created any categories?

Check Admin > access control. There, you should see a tab 'category permissions'.

It works for me on 4.6.2.

-Dave

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gbanse commented

Thanks for the reply,
I do have categories but don't see the tab when I go to "Admin > access control" I just have the 3 std tabs "permissions, roles, rules"

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gbanse commented

I just realized that I had mixed up the files when I uncompressed them (didn't use the folder option) and must have been using the 4.5.X files.

I uninstalled the module, deleted the files, uncompressed them again (using folders) and then uploaded the correct file to the server. Installed the module and voila - now I see the tab!

Thanks!

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merlinofchaos commented

I haven't had good luck with its menu installing into the right place in 4.6.2, can't figure out entirely why.

If you go directly to /admin/access/category you should get the admin page.

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merlinofchaos commented

Oh! I remember why I had that problem.

There's another copy of the module in the 4.5.2 directory. Get rid of it; if you're not comfortable deleting it, move it somewhere NOT in your modules directory. Because of the way Drupal searches for modules, it picks that one up over the base directory (I imagine it comes first in a pure directory list) and thus you get one with the 4.5.2 menu styles.

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gbanse commented

I expected this module to allow me to control what Nodes users are able to access.

I have different topics(Category1 > Topic1, Topic 2, Topic 3 as terms). Each topic has a monthly column. I've set up different roles for each of the topics and given that role permission to Add & Update content using "category permissions". The goal is to allow my column authors to add/edit their articles for their column alone.

But I get access to more than I expected when I login as an author - a user that has the authenticated user role and one of the roles created to for column submissions. I expected to have the ability to add content for the category term (Topic 1 for example) I gave the role permission to. Instead I see all of the categories and terms of that type (in this case - stories). I can add and update the stories in any of them - though I have not looked into whether or not I can submit/edit someone elses' story.

Is this how it's supposed to function?