Blanket CCK Field Permissions for Specific Content Type? I am creating a rather large (100s fields) form using CCK. I would like access to edit the fields to be give to anyone who has access to create the content type rather than by role.

For example, I can allow an anonymous user to edit the field_phone using user permissions, but I do not want the anonymous user to have such permission on other content types, only the custom form.

Also, since there are 100s of fields, managing the edit permission individually kinda drags.

thanks, tom
"Editing a field" can mean a lot of things because a field has many properties for input ('widget'), storage and output ('formatter'). That's why I was trying to figure out what you're after.

If you can write PHP, anything is possible, but I think that introducing a way for content creators to edit (a limited set of) field settings, would require a lot of custom code. However I assume that you're looking for a solution that requires no (or a little) custom coding. In order to achieve that, you may need to choose an alternative solution, like a custom compound field, CCK Multigroup or Webform. However I cannot advice you about that because I don't know which problem you're trying to solve.

On a more theoretical level, I think you have to be careful not to get content and configuration mixed up. Drupal stores both configuration (like field settings) and content (the information in a node) in the database. What you're asking sounds as if editing the field settings would in fact become another way to enter information. That may not be a problem now, but it can become a problem later because other modules are not prepared to access field settings as if they are part of the content.