I've been using Drupal since Drupal 4, and have been quite a happy customer overall (thank you!), but I'm having a bit of a problem with forums at the moment.
Background: We want to have Forums be somewhat private for different sub-groups of people in an organization for committee work. Some people will have access to all, and some will only have access to certain subsets of forums. Fine, I can do this with the ACL module and forum_access, it seems. I'd rather do this with the native taxonomy and just make it so that any taxonomy that I create could be used to post forum topic and then use taxonomy_access_control to manage it, but that doesn't seem to work. Forums wants you to create its own containers and forum at the get-go and won't see the taxonomies that I created. Ok, I can live with that.
So, I created the forum containers and forum inside forum and as an administrator I can post a forum topic and I get the little red-starred "Forums" pulldown at the top with the forums that I have created. All is good there. However, as a user, when I post a forum topic, the little Forums pull down to pick a forum isn't there. When the topic is posted, it doesn't seem to be associated with any container/forum at all. I've tried digging around all over in permissions, but I can't figure this one out.
I did look at Open Groups to see if it might be the answer, but it seems far too heavy weight for what I want to do and the Node based abstraction seems un-ideal. Any advice on either what to do with permissions so that users can choose the proper forum or a different way to do this?
Thanks,
Doug
