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User roles

I'm wondering if there is a way for a user, as he or she signs up, to choose their own role. Not "admin" obviously, but if I have a more nuanced role that if a user could choose for themselves after agreeing to "terms of service" (for lack of better terminology), that would be great.

modifying taxonomy

OK, so I f'd up with the taxonomy thing a little bit. Instead of having ONE "vocabulary" for my whole site and adding the terms below it, I used a "vocabulary" to represent not the "root" but, let's say, an "I" in an outline, the topmost level in the heirarchy that has multiple values.

Is there a FileStore-like module that saves files outside the database?

So I got FileStore working, and while I like the user-experience of uploading and downloading, I don't like the idea of the files themselves being locked up in the database. If for no other reason, this system prevents me from running a simple backup of downloaded files, but it also makes URLs linking to the files unintuitive.

I see that the Image module stores real files in the "normal" filesystem, so such a thing is possible.

Am I missing this sort of "downloads" module?

-Warr

Strange Taxonomy Behavior

I created 2 Vocabularies: Articles and Tutorials. I associated them with the type "Story". And I added a different term to each of those. Then I added the toxonomy_menu module and told it to display both Articles and Tutorials. So far so good.

Then I added content and selected the term from the Articles dropdown and left the Tutorial term set to -none-. Then I did the same thing except I added content and selected the Tutorial term and left Articles on -none-.

Customizing Drupal generated Text

Hi all. Somewhere a while back I found a tutorial outlining how to change the text automatically generated by Drupal.

For instance, the instructions under various text fields when a user is inputting content. Or changing the Navigation bar text, like "Create Content" to "Post Content".

Can anyone point me to that document or know how to do it?

Thanks!

BookReview Module and Guest Viewing

I installed the BookReview Module and I changed the permissions of the anonymous role to "access bookreviews". So I logged out and tried to click the "Read More" link on my fake book review and I get the message back "You are not authorized to access this page.". I'm not sure if there is a bug with the BookReview Module or if I am doing something wrong.

I am using Drupal 4.4.1 and BookReview 4.4.0.

Thanks.

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