RE: [ic] RE: Limiting access to item by user

[patrick.bennett@ccgenesis.com]

> Thank you for the response.  If I understand how affiliates work, it 
> allows you to place a link on another web site that connects 
> directly to 
> a product page on your site. The product page can be customized 
> specifically for visitors from that affiliate.
> 
> I don't think this is the feature I'm looking for, however.  In this 
> case, our client's wholesellers don't have or want their own 
> individual 
> sites.  Our client wants to sell certain items to their 
> wholesellers but 
> each wholeseller will have their own set of items.  The wholeseller 
> should be able to see only their own items and no others.  From the 
> description of affiliates, it looks like anyone would be able to view 
> any item no matter what.
> 
> Also we don't need a customized page specifically for each 
> wholeseller. 
>   They should look the same no matter the wholeseller.
> 
> Any other ideas about how to approach this problem would be 
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Collin Condray
> 

My take on this would be that you will probably want to set
up a shopping page that takes into account who the user is
logged in as.  My shopping page is a custom IC page that I
wrote for my site.  You don't need to take the out of the
box one necessarily.  The page you write could enforce
having a valid userid, and then use that userid to look
products up in the database.  You would need what I call
a "linker table" - there's probably a technical term for it.
It would have the user_id and sku, and you then can fill it
out with a list of users and the skus they are allowed to
see.  You may want to maintain it in a spreadsheet and load
it into IC from there.

Just an idea.

Patrick
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