what do you think of my plan to extend myPortal page to allow for product uploads from multiple people?

[Patrick-4]

Here's my goal.
I want multiple users to be able to upload [their own] products into a
catalog and associate their products with a category and not have
access to the other admin stuff.

Here's the plan.
I will make the target user.  Then I will modify the myPortal page [of
that user] to include the "Create Product" and "Edit Product
Categories" functionality from the "Catalog Page".  This will allow a
multiple user to upload products into a Catalog without giving them
access to the entire back-end..

Since I think this will take me a while, I appreciate any tips or
direction.  Thanks. Patrick

[Alexander1893]

hi patrick,
the important thing is which rights your "customers / sellers" have. just extending the portal-application will not have any effect on that. If I understood you right, then you want to add some of the views of the backend to the frontend (regarding the demo-application). If you do so - still your sellers will have the right to call all other services belonging to their role (if they have the right url or know how to do it).

As I'm also very new to OfBiz - I'd be happy for any comment of the experts!

Kind regards
Alexander

[Ruth Hoffman-2]

Hi Patrick:
If you do that, you may also want to consider adding the following
functionality:

    * Allow your users to create catalogs - or are you going to have
      another user who does that? How will your users they know which
      catalog their products go into? What if they want more than just a
      single catalog or category per catalog?
    * Manage product features. Are features global to all your users or
      specific to some users and not others?
    * Place catalogs on stores so that they may be viewed. Are your
      catalogs only for the target user or will they eventually end up
      on an eCommerce site?
    * Add/remove global price rules/promos for stores (or is that not
      something you want your users to do?)
    * Manage subscriptions since these are associated with products and
      not necessarily stores.
    * Allow your users to take advantage of the built-in thesaurus and
      category search setup features.

Just a few things to consider. I'm sure there are more...but these are
just off the top of my head.
Regards,
Ruth

Patrick wrote:

> Here's my goal.
> I want multiple users to be able to upload [their own] products into a
> catalog and associate their products with a category and not have
> access to the other admin stuff.
>
> Here's the plan.
> I will make the target user.  Then I will modify the myPortal page [of
> that user] to include the "Create Product" and "Edit Product
> Categories" functionality from the "Catalog Page".  This will allow a
> multiple user to upload products into a Catalog without giving them
> access to the entire back-end..
>
> Since I think this will take me a while, I appreciate any tips or
> direction.  Thanks. Patrick
>
>  

[Alexander1893]

Thanks Ruth!
I think this gonna help.