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03 Oct 2007, 18:06
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Customer-Based Product Listing

I want to add a product that only a certain customer can see.

Is there a way Zen Cart can do this?
03 Oct 2007, 18:36
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Re: Customer-Based Product Listing

Put it in its own category and use the hideCategories mod available in Downloads.
04 Oct 2007, 10:44
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Re: Customer-Based Product Listing

Thanks so much. I will check it out.
04 Oct 2007, 20:34
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Re: Customer-Based Product Listing

The hideCategories mod wasn't quite what I was looking for. I was looking for something like a product staus of "Manual" in addition to OFF, ON, and Linked. Any product with a status of "Manual" does not appear on the web store unless manually linked to a customer id.

Below the "Options" section of the "Customers" page, a new section for manually linked products would be added. The data would be stored in a table and then a query used to retrieve the products after the normal product listing query is run.

Or maybe Zen Cart already has similar functionality and it's just not immediatley obvious. I just thought, "categories, products, customers, groups" and figured there'd be a way to have products only certain groups could see.

If you have any other ideas, please let me know.
29 Jan 2008, 15:53
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Re: Customer-Based Product Listing

Did you ever find a solution to this, as I am very much in need of this also.
29 Jan 2008, 16:17
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Re: Customer-Based Product Listing

There is nothing that functions exactly as you describe. Coding this would be a very large job.

HideCategories gives the same end result in a different way - it will not let a (sub)category (which can have one or more products in it) be visible to anyone but the customer or customers you specify.
29 Jan 2008, 16:29
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Re: Customer-Based Product Listing

OK, I have Hidecategories installed but dont see how I can make only certain customers view those products.
Any help is much appreciated.
29 Jan 2008, 16:38
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Re: Customer-Based Product Listing

If the readme documentation with the mod doesn't give enough information, look for the hideCategories support thread in Contributions. I haven't used it so can't say more about it.