[ic] Password-protecting part of a catalog

Bill Carr interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Feb 26 11:14:01 2003


On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 10:05, Richard Watson wrote:
> Bill Carr <bill@worldwideimpact.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 07:47, Richard Watson 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.
One approach would be to have an .access_gate like this:
*: [your_usertag]

Then make a usertag that returns 1 if access is allowed for the current
user or 0 otherwise.

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Bill Carr
Worldwide Impact
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