Hi,
I've searched through the forum and can't seem to find anything that addresses my question. I've read the handbook as well. Of course, being a total newbie with Drupal, it's entirely possible I don't know the correct search terms to use to find my answer. I'm using 4.5.1.
I'm working on a site where there is a national office and branches. Some of the content about the branches will be static and the bosses want to restrict editing of those pages. I looked at the book module and figured that would be perfect. It even generated that nice little menu for me. :) I could set permissions on books and that would be that. So I created a taxonomy for branches and assigned it to a book and added the content for each branch. No problem. Everything worked great.
Only problem is that now the bosses want the branches to be able to add and edit some content to pages and have this content integrated somehow in the menu that shows up for the book. Being the total newbie (four days of working with Drupal), I'm not sure how to accomplish that.
For example, all the branches will post reports. So I created a taxonomy for reports. I figured that the branches could classify the reports they posted under their branch name from the taxonomy used by the book and the type of report from the reports taxonomy thereby linking them together.
What I can't figure out is how to get the added pages to appear in a menu together with the branch pages. I could do it *if* the menus were static, but then that kind of defeats the purpose. Not all content will be the same for all branches. I came up with the idea of putting "placeholder" pages in the book pages and the content of the placeholder pages could then be generated somehow based on whatever parts of the other taxonomies that are also related to that branch. I have no idea how to do that, if it can be done or if I'm making this too difficult and there's an easier or simpler solution.