Hi RS Forums-

I am a n00b to Role Scoper and need a little help. First off I would like to say that this plugin is amazing, but I don't really know how to use it for what I need to do.

Here's what I need…

I am running a news website for Regis Jesuit High School. We have an editorial hierarchy that we are using WordPress to enforce. On top of that, we have two divisions (we're a Catholic school): the Boys Division and the Girls Division. I need to be able to use RS to enforce category-specific roles.

I have edited the default WordPress roles. Contributor, Author, and Editor have been replaced respectively with Author, Editor, and Content Admin. Authors are able to write posts in whatever category they desire (but only see their own posts). Editors should be scoped to a specific category for reading and editing of others' posts, but they can't publish posts (they shouldn't even see any posts from other categories). Content admins (mainly) and global administrators are the ones responsible for publishing posts.

While this may not seem too complicated to do at first, I want to restrict the set WP roles so they are also scoped per division. For example, the sports editor in the Boys Division should only be able to see Boys Division stories in the Sports category. The same goes for all the categories in the Girls Division. In addition, content admins should only (see/be able to publish) stories from their respective division.

I know that this is possible with RS, but I don't know exactly how. We have a bit of a special situation with our editorial hierarchy and need something that will just work.

Thanks for your suggestions-

Morgan

Thanks for the advice, I will try that. What do you recommend for the codivisional role assignment? Should I adjust my category hierarchy? Right now all of our categories (news, sports, etc) are top-level. Is there a way to say "user/RS group X should only be able to edit news stories that are assigned to Boys Division AND Sports?" (of course this assumes that Boys Division and Girls Division are top-level as well).

Thanks again. Your plugin is extremely useful!