Assortments

Adrian Ursu

Posted on 15/10/2014 20:12:55

Hi Guys,

I have the following case of Assortment use:

There is a default list of products that is available to anonymus users as well as for some users that don't have personalised product lists.

I have tried using Assortments but it cannot handle the case of anonymus users nor the case where users are authenticated but don't have personalised lists of products.

Since the number of clients with personalised lists of products is much lower than the number of the clients using the default list, I need to find a solution for this case. is there any chance to use Assortments with a different setting than the current one? Is it tweakable?

Any other ideeas on how I can accomplish this?

And to complicate thing a bit more, some clients have more than one list of products (Contract list, Extended list, Special list, Back to School list etc). And they might need to be able to browse there lists separately.

I am talknig about 20.000 products, about 5-600 clients (companies) and about 5000 Users.

Thanks a lot for any suggestion.

Adrian

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Jonas Krarup Dam

Posted on 16/10/2014 09:07:03

Hi Adrian,

Currently, anonymous users have access to the products that are not in any assortments. Authenticated users without personalized lists have access to these same products.

It is assumed that if an anonymous user has access to a product, any authorized user also has access to this product.

basically, the products that should be available for everyone should not be included in any assortments at all.

with regard to handling multiple lists of products: I believe that this should be handled by setting up the navigation and product catalogs, possibly combined with some access control - this is not a part of the assortments functionality. Assortments simply control which products should be shown, not how they should be shown.

Regards, Jonas

Adrian Ursu

Posted on 16/10/2014 09:25:07

Hi Jonas,

Thanks a lot for the answer.

Unfortunately for our case (and we actually have two prospects with a similar scenario) this exclusion method does not work.

The onlyu way I see this would work is if we find a way to allocate products lists to Anonymus users. Which is currently not possible.

That's a general observation regarding permissions. If this setting is exclusive, than it should allow to set permissions for anonymus users. Otherwise if all products are part of assortment lists, the anonymus user will not see anything.

Similar with the current permission setting that allows you to grant or deny acces to all or to specific users or usergroups.

I am aware that the functionality probably have been requested by some client the way it is now, but in order to make it useful to a larger number of cases, it should be more configurable.

It's obvious that we won't be able to use assortments for our setup and we might end up losing the client if we don't find a way to solve it.

Thanks,

Adrian

Jonas Krarup Dam

Posted on 16/10/2014 10:41:05

Hi Adrian,

Technically, I think it is possible for us to add "allow anonymous access" to assortments in dynamicweb - if it makes sense, I suggest that you create a post in the feature request forum, with a description of your use-case.

If you have a short deadline for getting this functionality (and it sounds like you do), I recommend contacting Asger Højfeldt, our product manager - you guys may be able to work something out together :-)

Regards, Jonas

Adrian Ursu

Posted on 16/10/2014 10:56:12

Thank you Jonas.

I will follow your advice.

Thanks,

Adrian

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