Not allow vendors add categories?

I am a newbie. So I think I am missing (don’t know where to find) some things I think must be available for a mutli-vendor 4.0.1 store.


  1. I cannot have my vendors adding their own categories. I want them to use only the ones set up by the Store Admin.



    Is there a way to block vendors from adding their own categories?


  2. Is there a setting so the Admin must approve uploads before they become active? Is there a way to edit the uploads before they are active?



    Example: My site will be new to vendors.



    I want them to be able to add/edit/change their products, but I cannot risk the chance that a novice will put the Product Names in the Category section by mistake and I end up with hundreds or thousands of categories and my site becomes useless until I find and disable the vendor.





    Do you have any suggestions how I can handle this?



    Or am I missing an easy fix?



    Thanks for your help.



    Mark

I need this and more… basically we only want our vendors to view orders and pick. We want to remove practically everything from Vendor admin?



Anyone have any ideas?

BTW: you can acheive this in v4 though User groups and setting them to active for each Vendor

After several back and forth tickets, CS-Cart made a modification to my files to prohibit vendors from adding categories. I have since confirmed and the mods are working correctly.

I just don't think vendors should be allowed to add categories at all. I would also like to limited which categories a Vendor is allowed to add products to, is this possible?

We simply hid the controls that allowed vendors to add categories - now only the admin can create new categories, and vendors can only apply them to their products.



Simple CSS addition.

in the file design/backend/templates/index.tpl add these lines:






below line 19 -> {include file="buttons/helpers.tpl"}

Then in the CSS ( design/backend/css/styles.less) add this style:



#abend li.categories {display: none;}

this hides the categories for the vendor admins but not the main admin

[quote name='Markman1' timestamp='1379972574' post='168618']

I am a newbie. So I think I am missing (don't know where to find) some things I think must be available for a mutli-vendor 4.0.1 store.


  1. I cannot have my vendors adding their own categories. I want them to use only the ones set up by the Store Admin.



    Is there a way to block vendors from adding their own categories?


  2. Is there a setting so the Admin must approve uploads before they become active? Is there a way to edit the uploads before they are active?



    Example: My site will be new to vendors.



    I want them to be able to add/edit/change their products, but I cannot risk the chance that a novice will put the Product Names in the Category section by mistake and I end up with hundreds or thousands of categories and my site becomes useless until I find and disable the vendor.





    Do you have any suggestions how I can handle this?



    Or am I missing an easy fix?



    Thanks for your help.



    Mark

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    If you go to the menu Vendor/Vendors click on the vendor account and then the Category tab you can add the categories that a vendor can put product in. I think if you do not do this a vendor can add to all categories by default.



    Alan

[quote name='janskor' timestamp='1396899673' post='181194']

We simply hid the controls that allowed vendors to add categories - now only the admin can create new categories, and vendors can only apply them to their products.



Simple CSS addition.

in the file design/backend/templates/index.tpl add these lines:






below line 19 -> {include file="buttons/helpers.tpl"}

Then in the CSS ( design/backend/css/styles.less) add this style:



#abend li.categories {display: none;}

this hides the categories for the vendor admins but not the main admin
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very good hint....I want to remove other menu items for the vendor as well....how and where do I figure out which one to remove....I assume the IE 8 means the categories control?

Kind regards

Jan

[quote][color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]BTW: you can acheive this in v4 though User groups and setting them to active for each Vendor[/font][/color][/quote]



As Philspeak told, you can use user groups to limit some of the functionalities.



First create a new user group and the assign to this group what you want their member be able to do.



Then you need to assign the vendors to that user group.

See



Vendor Administration: Customized Menu - Multi-Vendor Edition - CS-Cart Community Forums



i just hide the stuff they should not do.

Can anyone give me a checklist of what you allow for your vendors? I've been playing around with a Custom Vendor group but I have one major problem; hopefully it's something simple that I'm missing.



At the bottom of the Privileges tab of my Custom Vendor group: If I select View Vendors, they can see every vendor, not just themselves. I need them to be able to update their description, logos, and other vendor information but certainly not everyone else's.



Can someone give me a good push in the right direction here?



Thanks in advance.

Something is really wrong… Can anyone tell me if you are experiencing this problem on your MV site? (running 4.2.2)…



When logged in as a Vendor with the default 'Vendor's Administration' settings > clicking on the Vendors menu and viewing Vendors, I can see them all. When I click on a Vendor (that isn't the one I'm logged in as), it displays the 'New Vendor' page with blank/empty values but no Save button. When I click on the Vendor account I AM logged in as, it gives me the ability to edit that Vendor's information.



Why is this happening? Is it just me and my site?