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Users who are not a part of groups permitted to access an element can not view the element

Hi,
I have created 4 different roles and have assigned each role a category.
Each role also has a group of users assigned to it, so what I would like to do is:
when user A who belongs to role A should be able to view and edit CATEGORY A, but should not be able to view or edit CATEGORY B and a message should display that they do not have rights to access this page.

How do I achieve this?

any help would be greatly appreciated,
-mahvash

e-publish: How do I show the latest edition?

A question for those who work with the e-publish module:

What is the URL path to show the latest edition of a publication? Or, how can I have this be the front page?

I want a similar result as the URL "epublish/2/v1n2", which invokes a modules/epublish/layout_[...].inc file and displays the latest headlines using the layout_[...].inc as a template.

$user-> ???

Hello,

I am new to PHP and Drupal and am trying to get some things to work, but can't seem to.
I want to have it so that when a user logs in their user picture, username and other information is displayed in a block. To so this I setup a taxonomy term called Personal Information and stuff it with a bunch of sub-terms (ie. age, birthday, url, ect). I can't seem to find anyway to retrieve that information. I can retreive all a users basic info $user->init, $user->uid, $user->signature, ect, but I can't find a way to retreive any of the taxonomy info. I tried things like $user->user_url and $user->profile_url (url is the name of one of the taxonomy fields in the personal info term), but I couldn't seem to find anything that would pull out the info I need.

http://soultrance.r30.net *the block I am refering to is in the top left, right now it retreive basic info, but I want it to retreive more*

The following might be of help:

Under Users > Configure > Profiles

Title Name Type Category Operations
First Name profile_fname single-line textfield Personal Information edit delete
Last Name profile_lname single-line textfield Personal Information edit delete
Website URL profile_url URL Personal Information edit delete
Email Address profile_email single-line textfield Personal Information edit delete
MSN Address profile_msn single-line textfield Personal Information edit delete

Unfortunately, another cron question

OK... I've searched the forums and found MANY messages about cron. Unfortunately, I must be dense today because I'm not sure what to do for my needs.

How to have new stories unpublished by default and set up a moderation queue?

I am working with Drupal for the first time with a website that is a fully internet-based magazine. Articles need to be submitted online by users, and then a list of users with the role of "editor" are able to edit these stories. What we want is for an editor then to be able to "flag" a story for publication (by putting it in the moderation queue seems to be the most relevant Drupal function). Then the administrators every two weeks will be able to publish all of the articles that were flagged for publication during the past two weeks.

My question is this: how can I make it so that those with a role of "writer" can submit stories but cannot choose whether or not it is published, in moderation queue, etc? We want stories upon submission to be unpublished and not in the moderation queue. I have spent a long time searching through settings and user permissions and cannot find anything that looks like the place to set this up.

I have one other question that kind of goes along with this, the only other thing I haven't been able to figure out yet... every two weeks we have a new "issue" online; we don't want to unpublish the old articles (because we want them to be searchable and remain in the archives) but we also don't want articles from previous issues showing up on the front page. Is there any place to set a cut-off date before which an article in the database will not show up on the main page?

any taxonomy guide for dummies?

i'm new with drupal.
especially taxonomy stuffs.

i'd successfully installed drupal with few modules to my host server.
i read the online handbook.
i read the help comes with drupal installation.

still...
i cant understand taxonomy.
what it is.
how to create it.
what is hierarchy? single or multiple hierarchy?
multiple select?
and what's that required options means?

the handbook comes with an example.
but no instruction on how to create that example...

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