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Edit Content Pages by Store Managers : The fix is now ready for BETA...

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:19:22 +0000

Author: ProductCart
Subject: 3560
Posted: 27-March-2010 at 8:19pm

The fix is now ready for BETA testing. It has been tested internally on multiple ProductCart-powered stores running both MS Access and MS SQL. However, we will hold off from publishing it in the "Just In" section of the Support Center for a day or two while we gather your feedback and perform additional, internal testing.

ProductCart_v4.0_SP3_Content_Pages_Fixes_032710.zip

See the README file contained in the ZIP for installation instructions.

If you are interested in testing the different permission levels, you can do so on our general ProductCart v4 demo store:

- User with Add/Edit/Publish permissions: log in with 445577/445577 (User Name/Password)
- User with Add/Edit permissions: login with 445588/445588

In a nutshell, a user with Add/Edit permissions cannot "publish" a page. Pages created or edited by such a user are offline until reviewed and published by a user with higher level permissions.

If there are pages that need to be reviewed, a user with publishing permissions is notified when viewing the "Manage Content Pages" page.

We are in the process of documenting in the ProductCart WIKI how the two different permission levels work (Managing Content Pages in v4). The updates to the documentation will be live by tomorrow.

Edit Content Pages by Store Managers : I know it is inconsequential to...

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:32:42 +0000

Author: cognecy
Subject: 3560
Posted: 27-March-2010 at 6:32pm

I know it is inconsequential to the function of this section of the Database but looking at the graphic and looking at their DB may confuse some users because the field names may be different in thier permissions table. I am offering this for clarification

The image above which EI posted is representative of the old field names for stores that have been around since before 3 was released and upgraded. Also, the order of the field names does not really matter as long as the number of the field matches with the name of the field.

In new stores and in stores that were installed starting at version 3, your permission table will be structured with these field names for the first 10 entries (again, the order of 8,9, and 10 may be different but the names should still match the numbers)

1 Settings

2 Products

3 Marketing

4 Shipping

5 Payments

6 Tax Settings

7 Customers

8 Affiliates

9 Orders

10 Reports

All you need to do if you are going to fix this manually is add in the entries for 11 and 12 as shown in the image posted previously.

Edit Content Pages by Store Managers : It looks like there are a couple...

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:12:07 +0000

Author: ProductCart
Subject: 3560
Posted: 27-March-2010 at 2:12pm

It looks like there are a couple of issues here.

(1) There is an issue in the v4 Upgrade database script in that it does not populate the user permissions table ("permissions") with the correct entries.

(2) A bit of the code needs to be updated to support both permission levels.

We clearly made a mistake at some point in the development process. We'll have to investigate to see what happened.

We are going to create and post a fix, but in the meantime, you can manually edit the table in the database if you want to quickly address the problem. Here is how the database table should look:

You will also need to edit one line of code in "pcadmin/cmsAddEdit.asp". You will need to change:

<%PmAdmin=11%>

To:

<%PmAdmin="11*12*"%>

This will allow both users with "Add/Edit" and users with "Add/Edit/Publish" permissions to access the "Add/Edit Content Page" feature, but only users with the "Publish" permissions will be able to publish the page. Of course, the master user has full rights.

We certainly apologize for the inconvenience and will post an official fix soon.

Edit Content Pages by Store Managers : EI, Thought I woufl chime in...

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:47:28 +0000

Author: cognecy
Subject: 3560
Posted: 27-March-2010 at 1:47pm

EI,

Thought I woufl chime in here real quick. I have noticed this issues as well when a customer informed me that users they create do not have the ability to edit or publish the content pages. (Version 4).

When a store admin creates a user and gives them full permissions it really does need to be full permissions. In version for the "Pages" tab is omitted even if you check every box.

In our customers case they have several people working on the site that have a need to be editing these pages. My thought was there just needs to be a checkbox in the permissions stack for the Content pages or it just need to be bundled in with one of the other selections.

We was going to write a work around for this customer but since it has been brought up in the forum by another user, it may be more condusive to let you guys address it.

Edit Content Pages by Store Managers : I have 3.51, 4.0, and 4.0 SP3. The...

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:42:16 +0000

Author: hometownworks
Subject: 3560
Posted: 27-March-2010 at 1:42pm

I have 3.51, 4.0, and 4.0 SP3.

The most pressing issue is with the 2 v4 stores.

Edit Content Pages by Store Managers : Which version of ProductCart are...

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:37:20 +0000

Author: ProductCart
Subject: 3560
Posted: 27-March-2010 at 1:37pm

Which version of ProductCart are you running?

Edit Content Pages by Store Managers : I don't have these options...

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:36:07 +0000

Author: hometownworks
Subject: 3560
Posted: 27-March-2010 at 1:36pm

I don't have these options to select, here are the only choices I have.

Edit Content Pages by Store Managers : You will need to create Control...

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:26:41 +0000

Author: ProductCart
Subject: 3560
Posted: 27-March-2010 at 1:26pm

You will need to create Control Panel users that have limited permissions. This can be done under "Settings > Manage Users".

Edit Content Pages by Store Managers : I want to have several Store Managers...

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:37:15 +0000

Author: hometownworks
Subject: 3560
Posted: 27-March-2010 at 11:37am

I want to have several Store Managers update the information on the Content Pages.

The WIKI instructions for Managing Content pages says "reviewed by a store manager with publishing permissions." How do I set publishing permissions for Store Managers?