[support] support Digest, Vol 113, Issue 62

[Roger]

Hi. I wonder if you can create a new group of users just for those 6 
people? Is that possible? I have never tried it.

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I have need to let 6 users add or update data in taxonomy fields which 
provide drop down menus for Town. Locality and Venue. I have an editor's 
page and menu for such purpose where those selectI kinda thought of that 
but they still have to have admin permissions.
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I set up a role and a couple of users with that role with restricted 
admin permissions but it doesn't work.
I tried in orgainc groups and workbench but still no luck.
It seems to be a flaw in the thinking about taxonomy entry, in that the 
devs set up the system and no one else can input.

It  seems that  CMS's seem to be more magazine oriented, encouraging 
anyone to input and the taxonomy probably suits that system where it 
doesn't easily facilitate instances we need.
Where for instance one editor has one reviewer - responsible for and 
seeing only the unpublished data they need to and nothing else. When the 
Reviewer publishes the data/article, etc public see only generic data, 
members see public and member specific data and management sees all but 
none of these can input or edit.

We  have 12 editors, 12 reviewers and one site controller who can take 
down an off topic or offensive article.

Our current thinking is looking at using content types instead of 
taxonomy but that makes the data structure unmanageable as we found with 
our Drupal 6 site and is not the recommended way for Drupal 7.  I would 
need 7 content types to do the work of 3 taxonomies.
Our taxonomies provide selectable data for drop down menu selections.

I'm thinking of using a page content type with the body set to plain 
text, and getting the editors to enter their taxonomy entries to that 
then, I think, there is a module that reads plain text and puts those 
lines into taxonomy, maybe I can get it to read the plain text on the 
page and create the taxonomy from that.
  It is a pity that things are so convoluted.

Thing is that we only need to update the location, venue and contacts 
taxonomy infrequently, maybe a dozen times a year but each of the 
editors need to be able to do that and the reviewers need to be able to 
review the entry.

Apologies for the convoluted nature of this post, I'm stuck and somewhat 
confused as to what to do.
Thanks
Roger