custom control panel
 

ok i have the wierdest request ever from a potential client. I showed her x-cart and she likes it and stuff.. fine.. She wants a custom control panel, dumbed out beyond our wildest dreams.. All she wants to see is - add item description, category, price, photos and weight. I guess i can understand 'why' .. is this even possible? I have the tools i know i'd need to do this type of database work but willl x-cart choke ? there are a lot of things that get shot into tables all over the place i'm assuming so i'm guessing its not as simple as appending to the products and images table ..any advice ?

Re: custom control panel
 

why not get her to log in as fulfillment staff, and then just add in what she needs to the fulfillment view?

Re: custom control panel
 

You can edit skin1/main/product_details.tpl to modify the adding/modifying product page.

You can modify any field that she doesn't want to see, to become a hidden field (i.e. <input type="hidden" name="whatever" value="defaultVal" />) with a default value when adding a product, or a hidden field with the selected value when updating a product.

Using this method, you don't need to modify any of the php files or have any additional data integrity checks.

Jon

Re: custom control panel
 

thanks for the quick replies.. i'm trying to make the fulfillment staff view 'her page' .. that was a great idea.. thanks. Now i'm trying to enable the products menu option on the fulfillment staff view (it only shows management, profile and help) .. i pasted the url for the add products page from my login into hers (firefox to i.e) and of course is says access denied as well. I'm guessing this is just some permissions that need to be adjusted via smarty..

Re: custom control panel
 

* Update

It was a lot easier to knock a couple if statements into the relevant areas

{if $login ne 'master' }

{else}


{/if}

I should have known there was a smarty / x-cart way to do this.. man i love this product..