Admin Profiles (for v1.3.x only!) Support Thread

[dserhal]

The most straightforward way to tackle this would be to write a customer admin page that allows the theatres to do what you want them to be able to do for their category only, and then use Admin Profiles to restrict them to that page.

Hmmm. How do I "write a customer admin page" that allows them to do what they want?

Maybe I should explain what I am looking for: I want our site to be able to host all 13 member theatres. I need 13 mini-carts under the admin.

So a theatre-goer/customer can come to our site, then go to the shopping cart. They then see all the member theatres listed (I was going to put them in categories). They click on the category of say 4th Street Theatre and see that one of the products is "Fiddler On The Roof July 18th 7pm". They buy that ticket(s). Now 4th Street Theatre can log into their category and see sales. 4th Street Theatre can also go into their category and add tickets(product) for their next production of "Cats". However, I do not want 4th Street Theatre to have the same access to Chicago Street Theatres category where they are adding tickets for "Phantom of the Opera". Does that make any sense?

All of the above should be under the nwindiantheatre.org cart Administrator.

I guess a similar analogy would be how you can have a master email account [email protected] and assign sub-accounts that the sub-account holders can customize. [email protected], [email protected] etc.

It sounded like Admin Profiles could do something like this.

[outlawcat]

hi I am trying to install the admin profiles.. but I seem to be lost. I see step one wants me to do something with sql.. this is where I'm totally lost. went in my admin/tools/sql and its greek to me.. I have no idea what to put there..

I'm really not such a dummy.. installed the zen and made a few changes but not extensive..

also reading on it first says its an easy drop and drag in filezilla.. then reading further its saying to take each file and individually drop into sections.. I'm lost again

do I just drop and drag the whole thing or do I put like for instance

auto-loaders into admin/autoloaders on ftp
boxes into admin/boxes on ftp


images into admin/ images and so forth

after this in the read me I'm totally lost.. sorry

I have to have this add on as I am scrapbook shop and will be having multiple designers adding their products and I can't have them wondering all over the site.. ya know? lol and besides every other shop I have designed for had this feature and those gals that owned them weren't the brightest lightbulbs in the pack.. how in the heck did they get this installed?? lol

Can someone walk me through this please..

thanks
Cat

[AndyII]

not sure what to tell ya, its pretty basic ftp and sql, important thing is to Follow the instructions
It will add New files and overwrite a couple, the 1st thing you should do is BACKUP your site, primarily the admin section and your database because the sql query will add some new tables.
new files wont hurt anything as long as there isnt any existing file with the same name, when it comes to the "pre patched files, it will over write them, all will be fine as long as NO other modifications have been made to these pre patched files.

hi I am trying to install the admin profiles.. but I seem to be lost. I see step one wants me to do something with sql.. this is where I'm totally lost. went in my admin/tools/sql and its greek to me.. I have no idea what to put there..

I'm really not such a dummy.. installed the zen and made a few changes but not extensive..

also reading on it first says its an easy drop and drag in filezilla.. then reading further its saying to take each file and individually drop into sections.. I'm lost again

do I just drop and drag the whole thing or do I put like for instance

auto-loaders into admin/autoloaders on ftp
boxes into admin/boxes on ftp


images into admin/ images and so forth

after this in the read me I'm totally lost.. sorry

I have to have this add on as I am scrapbook shop and will be having multiple designers adding their products and I can't have them wondering all over the site.. ya know? lol and besides every other shop I have designed for had this feature and those gals that owned them weren't the brightest lightbulbs in the pack.. how in the heck did they get this installed?? lol

Can someone walk me through this please..

thanks
Cat

[artcoder]

Hi All,

Just installed Zen Cart, then installed Admin Profiles today.

Everything seems to have installed fine.

Question is: How do I use Admin Profiles module? Is there a tutorial anywhere? How do I create different users? Is there a "How to" for Admin Profiles module?

Yeah, here is a tutorial on adding different user and here is how to use Admin Profile module.

However, what is not explained in the tutorial and is actually my questions for coming here is ...

1. Why is the "Linkpoint CC Review" menu still visible when I only checkmarked "order" page?

2. In install instructions says ...

"However, this does not control whether the underlying pages are accessible or not, just whether the user can see them. They could still be accessed by a knowledgeable user entering a URL directly, or by any custom admin page that you choose to build for them."

Is that still true? It seems that when I tried to go to a "hidden url", I can not access it. I got error saying "Sorry your security clearance does not allow access."

This is good actually. But I'm wondering if the instructions are outdated?

[kuroi]

1. Why is the "Linkpoint CC Review" menu still visible when I only checkmarked "order" page?

Linkpoint CC Review is not a standard Zen Cart function so it will come with its own box file. STep 4 of the installation instructions explain the need to edit that box file to insert the Admin Profiles code. A separate step-by-step guide explains, with an example, how to do this. In this case it almost certainly hasn't been done. (One of these days when I get a few moments free, I'll package up and release the next version which doesn't require changes to the box files).

2. In install instructions says ...

"However, this does not control whether the underlying pages are accessible or not, just whether the user can see them. They could still be accessed by a knowledgeable user entering a URL directly, or by any custom admin page that you choose to build for them."

Is that still true? It seems that when I tried to go to a "hidden url", I can not access it. I got error saying "Sorry your security clearance does not allow access."

This is good actually. But I'm wondering if the instructions are outdated?

The instructions are correct - merely turning off the menu entry (to which that paragraph refers) will not turn off the page, just hide it. The next paragraph (not quoted here) explains how to turn off the page as well. The Pro version does both in one go, and that feature will trickle down to the free version too when I've got some free time to move it forward.

[dealbyethan.com]

Hi, I just installed Admin Profiles but when I go to admin > Tools > admin settings, it goes to my catalog instead. What did i do wrong? Please help.

[dealbyethan.com]

Also found out that all my 3rd party contributions are no longer there.

[dealbyethan.com]

tried reinstalling with no luck. I don't understand why I can't access admin settings. It keeps going to my catalog homepage. Please help.

[kuroi]

Hi, I just installed Admin Profiles but when I go to admin > Tools > admin settings, it goes to my catalog instead. What did i do wrong? Please help.

This is a problem in your environment rather than in Admin Profiles. When Admin Profiles does page redirects it is always to a "Page Denied" screen, not the catalog home page. And the point at which you are experiencing this problem is before you have even attempted to get to the admin_control page (accessed from admin settings) that does the heavy lifting for AP.

My guess is that you have a version incompatibility issue in your cart. You haven't said how you installed AP. Did you patch the admin.php file or use the 1.3.8 version provided (which may have some incompatibilities with your 1.3.7 site)?

[dealbyethan.com]

Hi Kuroi,

Thanks for your response. I am using v1.3.7. I thought the latest Admin Profiles was compatible with v1.3.7. I installed Admin Profiles first by patching the admin.php file myself but it didn't work. Then I use the v1.3.8 version provided but the problem persists. The admin.php files from v1.3.7 and v1.3.8 look identical.