Access to products

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.5
-- Joomla version -- : 3.3.6

Shop is set to catalog mode... I want only registered and logged in users to be able to see the products.
I would have thought this could be achieved through the access settings in the shop configuration, but it doesn't seem to work.
Am I missing something?
Thanks in advance.
Frank

macallan wrote: I want only registered and logged in users to be able to see the products.

I'd say the simplest way should be to set all shop menu items and modules to the user group of registered users.

Alternatively, you can use the "Access level" option in categories or individual products.

Hi,

Access level will be better for security purpose (using URL you still can display a joomla page without itemid).
You can use a mass action in order to set an access level to all of your products in the same time.

Regards,

Thank you both for your replies...
Mass action seems to do the trick for me.
I would have assumed that setting the access options to registered users (and managers and super users) at configuration level would apply to every new product that is added to the catalog.
However, that was not the case, so I had to go into every single product to make it work. This turned out quite tedious and time consuming.
I also thought that giving registered users access would automatically grant access to groups of a higher priority, like managers, admins and so on. But no, that isn't the case either...
So mass action is the way to go...

Yes. And you can also configure your mass action to run automatically when you create/update a product in order to set the access level automatically for you.

The Access level tab of the HikaShop configuration are for you to give access to the different areas of the HikaShop backend interface. so yes, it's not related to what you want to do.

Thanks Nicolas... that explains it all.

Frank

Could someone explain to me what I'm doing wrong?
I'm trying to select all products that are not accessible by Super Users and I want them to be accessible by
1)Administrators
2)Registered
3)Super Users - see Screenshot 1

When I run the action I end up with all products as in screenshot 2:
all access level boxes are unselected... nobody has access.

Any help would be greatly appreciated... I'm sure I stared at the problem for too long and I don't see the wood for the trees...

Thanks

Hi,

When you use the "update the values" action, you need to enter the value the same as it is stored in the database. So there is no point in having several "update the values" action on the same column in a mass action as only the last one will be taken into account.
The product_access level contains the ids of the user groups separated by a comma with a comma appended and another one prepended. So if you just enter the name of a user group in the field, the access level system will consider that as invalid and will discard it.
So it should like that : ,XX,YY,ZZ,
where XX, YY and ZZ are the ids of the user groups you want for your products.
Also, please note that the system will replace the value in the database by the value you enter in the field of your mass action.

Thanks Nicolas,

this worked.
If I'd taken a closer look at the product table via phpMyAdmin I might have found that out earlier...
However, I still have the feeling that the mass actions feature could do with a more comprehensive tutorial.
Cheers
Frank

Yes. That's on our todo list