How to give my clients access???

This is something I did not expect. I have been building an eshop for a client for two months. Now, almost ready to launch and teaaching the client the back end. However, I cannot find how to give permissions to the client using Joomla ACL. EShop has NO OPTIONS button or parameters or Permissions button!! In Configure, I did find permissions which is for reports, sales, themes, etc but nowhere can i find permissions to allow my client to edit or add products to the store. Please, this is very important and i can't believe that there is no easy way to give a client permission to add products to their store. I do not want to give Super User access to these clients. Thank you!!!!!

Hi Dave,
You just need to give the clients the Administrator or Manager to access to the back-end side of your site, then these customer group types can only manage categories, products, options, images, etc. They can not access to configuration, reports, sales, plugins, etc. So you don't need to give them the Super User access.
Hope that this is useful with you.
Sincerely, Giang

Thank you, that worked, but i am trying to create a very simple access level on my joomla site that allows the client access to all Eshop functions, and then the article manager, and nothing else. I have about twenty components, modules, plugins, etc and I dont want the client to see all of that. So now, when I gave administrator access level, they now have ESHOP, but also everything else.

Usually with components I can assign access on a component-by-component basis, so that the clients back-end is very simplified for them. My clients get confused easily!!

Thanks
Dave

Hello Dave,
EShop only supports that now. So you should find a way to limit access to other components for Administrator or Manager.
Hope that you will be able to solve the your problem.
Sincerely, Giang

We desperately need this function too!!




Please Giang!!

I will consider to improve EShop to make it work better with Joomla ACL.
Sincerely, Giang

My customer, Administrator level, was trying to create a promo code, and I thought he was an idiot for saying he didn't see where to do it. Then he sent a screen shot.

I could not believe that his Administrator level could not see the Sales drop drop down.
Then I drilled around looking for the ACL...and there is none so I made him a SuperAdmin so he could manage his store.

Unfortunately this guy actually is very likely to end up making a mess of things as a SuperAdmin so I must figure out how to give the Administrator level access to the Sales dropdown menu options.

Please tell me how to do so. I don't care if I have to manually re-code some piece of your extension every time I load an update...I need to be able to enable Admin access to Sales, Orders, Customers, Coupons.

Hello Sam

Please go to EShop -> System -> Configuration, then click on Options button on the tool bar, then you should be able to edit permission for Administrator to access to different part as Sales, Orders, Customers, etc in EShop.

Hope that this will help.
Sincerely, Giang

Sam Mittelstaedt wrote: Please tell me how to do so. I don't care if I have to manually re-code some piece of your extension every time I load an update...I need to be able to enable Admin access to Sales, Orders, Customers, Coupons.

Hi Sam,

Although Giang already gave you some hints how to solve this, let me tell you how I solved the same issue for my customer.
First I created a new Usergroup 'Eshop Admins', which is a child of the standard groups Administrators. So at first this new group has exactly the same rights as an Administrator.

Then go to System > Global configuration and find Eshop (com_eshop) in the list of components at the left hand side.
Then select your newly created usergroup and adjust the settings per item, see screenshot (although in Dutch).




My customer ended up with a totally stripped Joomla-interface, so he can see or touch hardly anything, besides Eshop.
Something like the next screenshot and also with limited access to Eshop.




Hope this helps and best regards,
Burt