Quote Originally Posted by chelgeson View Post
I am hoping someone can help me! I rarely receive any help from this zen cart forum but Ill give it another shot...

I am trying to set up a store like etsy (for those of you that are familiar)...where sellers create an account and can post/edit their own products. because I couldnt find anything existing software programs that do this I went with zen cart...made it work...and am very happy with the results.

However, I see this add-on now and it gives me hope! Is it possible to tweak this mod or the "Admin Users - Restrict Product Categories" mod to only grant the user access to the products which he/or she creates/created?

For example user logs in...chooses to add product...and then chooses what categories it belongs to...and adds it. Then when they log in next they see that product to edit or add a new one altogether. I dont want them to have access to a whole category because then they could edit another user's products. Any insight anyone has on how I can achieve this atmosphere I would GREATLY appreciate it. I have been trying to make things work for over 8 months now and would love finally be happy with the result.

Thank you
Cody
This has already been covered several times in this thread, which is why you didn't a response last time you asked it. But since it's been a while, let's go over it again ...

This mod is designed to limit access to pages and not get involved in what goes on within those pages, so wouldn't do what you want. The "Admin Users - Restrict Product Categories" mod seeks to go part way towards what you want, but sadly fails to do so in a secure way.

The current structure of the Zen Cart Admin rather gets in the way of restricting access at any level (which was why Admin Profiles as a partial solution was needed). I expect that this will change when it gets re-written for a future release. I'd be surprised if access control didn't become more central at that point.

However, for the time being this is open source, so you can work through adding all the restrictions needed yourself. I did it once, but it was a ton of work, not a lot of fun, and would need to be re-visited with each release, so there's not a quick fix for this.