[ic] Restricting User views to products they own

Mike Heins interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Fri Jan 31 10:06:00 2003


Quoting ICTech (ictech@computamerica.com):
> (1)  Is it a good idea to keep multiple stores (small stores with 5 - 50
> items) in one Catalog?

Not usually, unless you have some aggregation reason for doing this. 

> And add a username for each store owner and make
> them a member of the Merchandising & Orders/Sales group.
> My challenge is limiting each store owners to view only the products they
> entered.  Reading through the Interchange Manual, I found that I could use
> the TableRestrict directive in Catalog.cfg, but I am not sure if it is the
> best way to do this.

It should work, but this capability has only been used extensively in one
or two places I know of, and not by me. I can't vouch for its efficacy.

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Mike Heins
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