I think Deedra is talking about product administration and not about access to products in the ecommerce store.
There is actually some functionality to give more limited permissions to certain users. Instead of giving a user the full create, update and delete permissions for the catalog manager give them the "role limited" permissions. Then (as a different user that has permission to do so) associate them with a catalog in a certain role (which I've forgotten off the top of my head, sorry) and then they will be able to update products only in that category, and categories under that category (note that any category can be "under" more than one category at a time, so typically these categories will be under one or more categories for permission purposes, and one or more categories for customer browsing purposes, and possibly other categories for other purposes). If you want more something different than this then some code changing will be necessary because of how permissions are currently implemented in OFBiz. -David On Feb 5, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote: > Hi DeedraF: > I think this has been answer before on this list not too long ago. > > Out-of-the-box, you can't do this with any existing OFBiz applications. > Basically, the best you can do is limit access to certain users (belonging to > security groups) by store. > > To regulate access to specific products in a catalog on the same website (or > "store"), you will need to write some code. > > Regards, > Ruth > ---------------------------------------------------- > Find me on the web at http://www.myofbiz.com or Google keyword "myofbiz" > ruth.hoff...@myofbiz.com > > DeedraF wrote: >> I am very new to OFBiz. My dev team is working through the technical details >> and I am trying to handle the more 'front end' setup activities. Not >> finding very many 'exact steps' or documentation to use as a guide, I >> thought perhaps someone reading this post could help out?? >> >> I have created a store, catalog, products...and would like to now assign >> specific permissions accordingly. I do not want all my ADMINs to have the >> same full access to a catalog. As a matter of fact, I would like to create >> a 'Product Admin' allowing that person/group to simply Add, Edit, and Delete >> products in a specific store catalog. Is this a standard feature in OFBiz >> that I am just not grasping how to accomplish? If it is, please provide >> steps that might help me accomplish this task. >> >> Thanks in advance for your help with this issue. >>
