Re: Permission required to add product to ViewAllow / PurchaseAllow

2010-05-17 Thread chris snow
Hi Ruth, So are the following tooltip help popups incorrect?: https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/EditProdCatalog?prodCatalogId=DemoCatalog (to see the tooltips, hover your mouse over the field labels) Do you agree with these tooltips?:

Re: Permission required to add product to ViewAllow / PurchaseAllow

2010-05-16 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Chris, I think your answer is here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBENDUSER/Apache+OFBiz+Business+Setup+Guide#ApacheOFBizBusinessSetupGuide-CatalogSetup Jacques From: chris snow chsnow...@googlemail.com Hi BJ, I know how the security system works - but I still don't understand

Re: Permission required to add product to ViewAllow / PurchaseAllow

2010-05-16 Thread Christopher Snow
Thanks Jacques! On 16/05/10 09:13, Jacques Le Roux wrote: Chris, I think your answer is here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBENDUSER/Apache+OFBiz+Business+Setup+Guide#ApacheOFBizBusinessSetupGuide-CatalogSetup Jacques From: chris snow chsnow...@googlemail.com Hi BJ, I

Re: Permission required to add product to ViewAllow / PurchaseAllow

2010-05-16 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi Chris: The permissions you are talking about are the runtime checks (not really permissions) that OFBiz will perform if configured. So, these aren't applicable to the catalog admin, but rather the products and the categories the products are part of. This is how the catalog admin or

Permission required to add product to ViewAllow / PurchaseAllow

2010-05-15 Thread Christopher Snow
There are two options when creating/editing a Product Catalog: - Permission required to add product to ViewAllow category - Permission required to add product to PurchaseAllow category What do these options actually do? Many thanks, Chris

Re: Permission required to add product to ViewAllow / PurchaseAllow

2010-05-15 Thread BJ Freeman
the permission are programmed in to widgets, ftl and services. there are two parts to a permission is the permission is that action _ _VIEW for permission. _VIEW should only allow seeing data. note the _ preceding it. if you want to granularize something more then created a

Re: Permission required to add product to ViewAllow / PurchaseAllow

2010-05-15 Thread chris snow
Hi BJ, I know how the security system works - but I still don't understand the meaning of the fields on the form: https://localhost:8443/catalog/control/EditProdCatalog I am trying to write the help text for these fields from an catalog administrators perspective, for example: Permission