I brought this up at OSCMS and have a back-of-the-envelope design somewhere for a "book access" module (similar to "forum access") that would probably do what you want. Other priorities have taken over, so I never built this. Our specific need was simple enough that I could use Taxonomy Access Control. You might be able to string something together with TAC, but I can't promise it'll be pretty. :)
Scott
On 6/3/07, Chris Johnson cxjohnson@gmail.com wrote:
Is it possible to control access to book nodes in such a way that each user could have their own book, viewable by others, but editable only by them?
Actually, my ideal situation would be to have the ability to specify a small set of users who could edit each book, while it remained viewable by all. Or some other heirarchy of nodes, similar to what books provide.
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