Edit Content Pages by Store Managers

I want to have several Store Managers update the information on the Content Pages.

The WIKI instructions for Managing Content pages says "reviewed by a store manager with publishing permissions." How do I set publishing permissions for Store Managers?

I don't have these options to select, here are the only choices I have.

I have 3.51, 4.0, and 4.0 SP3.

The most pressing issue is with the 2 v4 stores.

It looks like there are a couple of issues here.

(1) There is an issue in the v4 Upgrade database script in that it does not populate the user permissions table ("permissions") with the correct entries.

(2) A bit of the code needs to be updated to support both permission levels.

We clearly made a mistake at some point in the development process. We'll have to investigate to see what happened.

We are going to create and post a fix, but in the meantime, you can manually edit the table in the database if you want to quickly address the problem. Here is how the database table should look:



You will also need to edit one line of code in "pcadmin/cmsAddEdit.asp". You will need to change:

<%PmAdmin=11%>

To:

<%PmAdmin="11*12*"%>

This will allow both users with "Add/Edit" and users with "Add/Edit/Publish" permissions to access the "Add/Edit Content Page" feature, but only users with the "Publish" permissions will be able to publish the page. Of course, the master user has full rights.

We certainly apologize for the inconvenience and will post an official fix soon.

The fix is now ready for BETA testing. It has been tested internally on multiple ProductCart-powered stores running both MS Access and MS SQL. However, we will hold off from publishing it in the "Just In" section of the Support Center for a day or two while we gather your feedback and perform additional, internal testing.

ProductCart_v4.0_SP3_Content_Pages_Fixes_032710.zip

See the README file contained in the ZIP for installation instructions.

If you are interested in testing the different permission levels, you can do so on our general ProductCart v4 demo store:

- User with Add/Edit/Publish permissions: log in with 445577/445577 (User Name/Password)
- User with Add/Edit permissions: login with 445588/445588

In a nutshell, a user with Add/Edit permissions cannot "publish" a page. Pages created or edited by such a user are offline until reviewed and published by a user with higher level permissions.

If there are pages that need to be reviewed, a user with publishing permissions is notified when viewing the "Manage Content Pages" page.

We are in the process of documenting in the ProductCart WIKI how the two different permission levels work (Managing Content Pages in v4). The updates to the documentation will be live by tomorrow.