Seperate area for a user group

Hi,

I think you want to use such extension to protect that area :
extensions.joomla.org/extension/access-a...e-access/jlex-block/
That way, the large corporate will be able to provide a password to their users to access that area of the website.
You could then setup the affiliate system of HikaShop, and have the page they access redirect to the shop with the added parameter in the URL for the affiliation code of the corporate main user account.
That way, each order created by someone who accessed that page will be linked to the affiliate. You can even provide them with the frontend interface to get a list of the orders and of the users linked to them.

Hi,

So you don't want to have them enter some code to access that "separate area" ?
You mean you want to let any user choose on the registration form ?
In that case, you can just create some custom fields of the table "user" via the menu Display>Custom fields to have them enter their employee code and maybe a yes / no choice. You can also use the "User group on registration" setting of the HikaShop configuration on that yes/no field so that the customers will be assigned either to the "registered" user group or another user group based on what they select.
Once you have the users separated by user group, you'll be able to get data out on the orders, etc with the mass action system (menu System>Mass actions) and a filter on the user group.

Hi,

Here is the documentation text for that option:

If set to inherit, HikaShop will use the user group configured in the Joomla user manager settings screen for the user group of newly registered users registering from the HikaShop registration form.
If set to a user group, HikaShop will use that user group instead.
Finally, it's also possible to select a custom address field or a custom user field of the types radio button, simple dropdown, multiple dropdown or checkbox. That way, you can let the customer choose himself his user group among a list of user groups you entered in the values of the custom field.
The custom field values should have the user group id in the "value" column for the system to work properly in such cases.

If you want to manually check the employee code, you can have them added to a temporary user group, and then when you check their id, you can move them to the user group you want the employees to have.
If you want to automatically check the employee code, then you can develop a custom plugin of the group "hikashop" and implement the onBeforeUserCreate trigger ( www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/6...r-documentation.html ) so that you can have your own code contact some API or check some database to validate the employee code automatically.