PS4.5 for wholesalers

Hi there,

I have nearly completed the setting up of a PS4.5 for wholesalers by restricting the view of the products only to customer that have registered and the login permission has been verified.

This worked fine with the horizontal navigation bar just below the header throughout the site; however the dynamic generated navigation bar on the left hand side of the pages behave in a different way and all my attempts to hide the products from public view have failed miserably.

It is my understanding that the left hand vertical menu operates through a different set of pages and codes; can you please help me in preventing the public viewing the products through the use of this menu?

Regards
Alfredo

The side menu is generated by the file in the webassist/plugins/side_menu folder. you will need to edit those file to hide the side menu from the public.

Thanks Jason for your prompt reply,

Before my first post I did already located the side menu in the webassist/plugins/side_menu folder and from there I’ve made several attempts to modify the various sidemenu.php files (4 of them) or the one connected to them.

The closest I’ve got to have the side menu displaying the login page was by modifying the page webassist/plugins/catolog/themed/results.php by inserting the code: <?php if (!WA_Auth_RulePasses("Logged in to users")){ WA_Auth_RestrictAccess("users_login.php"); }?> and adding “../” to the code <?php require_once('../../../../Connections/PowerStoreConnection.php'); ?>. However with this change the entire page will have nested in the content area a copy of the header, top menu, side menu, login and footer.

I think I’ve got a bit closer to the right solution but not quite there yet; can you enlighten me on how to restrict the content only to the login section?

Maybe I should duplicate and modify the user_login.php page which contains references to the general page template and maybe I should create a new rule to manage the pages access but that is not possible either considering that the file webassist/plugins/catolog/themed/results.php is buried too dip into the site and the Security Assist Access Pages/Rules Manager can’t reach the sub-sub-sub folders.

Or maybe there is a far more simple solution by tweaking few codes here and there. Can you please offer some assistance?

Cheers
Alfredo

i think the easiest way to do this would be to edit the template for your theme.

in the webassist/themes folder, open the subfolder for your theme, then go to the Templates folder and open the page.dwt.php template for your theme.

Find the following line of code:

<?php

echo($WASideMenu->Body);

?>

and change it to:

<?php

if (WA_Auth_RulePasses("Logged in to users")){

    echo($WASideMenu->Body);

}

?>

Dear Jason,

I did try your suggestion and the entire side menu disappeared completely from the site.

Maybe the code you suggested still needs somthing else into it to make it works; do you have any othe suggestions?

Again thanks for your help, I really appreciate WA committment for the on ongoing support.

Cheers
Alfredo

I thought removing the side menu for not logged in users was the idea?


The reality is: this is not a supported modification. It sounds like this is something beyond what I can help you with here in the forums. For this type of custom modification, I would suggest signing up for a premiere support appointment where we can work with you one on one.