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Re: [ic] Password-protecting part of a catalog


At 03:05 PM 2/26/03 +0000, you wrote:
> >  Most of the catalog will be open, but specific products
> > (maybe in specific groups) will be restricted each to a specific customer.
> >
> > Any idea where I start on this?

> Check out:
> .access and .access_gate

Thanks to both Bills for the response.

It seems that .access will more or less do what I want, but it seems
that its quite tricky to administer by my customer. From my
understanding it could well be beyond him to add a user to an area and
would get quite messy with many customers and many different areas.

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but if you can set up a form that writes to a table, you could probably use .access_gate quite effectively.

In .access_gate, performs a simple lookup on your_table to verify that the username is there:

*: [if type=data term="your_table::username::[data session username]"]1[else][bounce href="[area restricted_page secure=1]"][/else][/if]

No doubt this could be easily modified to recognize different levels of access. Perhaps if you add a field to your_table called "access_groups" which contains group1, group2, etc.

If you want your customers to add to this table, you'd just set up a form for them that will write to your_table. I've only worked with one separate level of access, but I don't see why this wouldn't work quite elegantly.

Lara

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