User Management

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VirtueMart offers the ability to assign users to a Shopper Group. This enables Storekeepers to create Shopper Groups for whatever need (e.g. site access, customer rating, tax display, etc.). These shopper groups can then be used to provide special services, discounts, or access to a specific group of users. Because users and shopper groups are associated to a particular vendor, it is important to create your vendor records before creating the user and shopper group records.

Adding or modifying a Shopper Group

You can add and modify shopper groups in VirtueMart using the Shopper Group List, which can be accessed through the menu: "Shopper" ⇒ "List Shopper Groups".

Figure 4.58. VirtueMart Administration: Shopper Group List

To add a new shopper group, just click on the "New" button in the toolbar. In the following shopper group form just fill out the necessary fields.

Figure 4.59. VirtueMart Administration: Shopper Group Form

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User Groups

User Groups are "Permission Groups" and used to restrict access to certain parts and functions of the shop. Each user is assigned to a user group. By default registered customers are members of the group "shopper".

When can this be useful?Imagine you have a user, who wants to access the "Report" section of the store. Usually this is restricted to admins and stoeradmins. If you assign this user to the admin/storeadmin group, he will also be able to access other sensible parts of the store, where he could change or delete important data. The solution is to add a new User Group called "Report", which will have the same permissions as shoppers PLUS access to the "report" core module. After the Group has been added, you can assign this user to the new group.

User Groups can be added, modified and deleted from the User Group List ("Admin" ⇒ "User Groups").

Figure 4.60. VirtueMart Administration: User Group List

You can click on the name of an existing group to open the user group form.

You can add a new Group by clicking on the "New" button in the toolbar. This opens the User Group Form:

Figure 4.61. VirtueMart Administration: User Group Form

Here you can choose a name for the group and the group level.

After you have saved the user group, it is available in the core module and function list/forms.

Figure 4.62. VirtueMart Administration: The New Group in the Module List

Now you can start to grant permissions to this new group by checking the boxes in this list for the column of the "New Group".

Figure 4.63. VirtueMart Administration: Manage User Fields

You can add a new field by clicking the "New" button on the toolbar in the User Field List. The Field Form allows you to choose from various field types like

In our example we will add a new field where users from the EU can fill in the EU VAT ID of their company if applicable.

Figure 4.64. VirtueMart Administration: Add a new User Field

The Form Fields have the following meaning:

If you are finished filling in the necessary values, don't forget to Save your changes.

Here is a screenshot of the newly added field "EU Vat ID" in the registration form:

Figure 4.65. VirtueMart Administration: New Field "EU Vat ID" in the registration form

Fields can be reordered, renamed, published, set to be required or not and much more.

Reordering Fields

Fields can be reordered using the blue arrows in the user field list or using the text input fields in each row of the list:

Figure 4.66. VirtueMart Administration: Re-Ordering in the Field List

If you have used the input fields to change the ordering of the fields, you must apply your changes by clicking the Save Icon in the top of this column. After that the fields will be reordered.

Publish (show)/Unpublish (hide) Fields

You can publish and unpublish fields by clicking on the icon in the column "Published". After that the publish state will be toggled.

Changing Fields

You can access the field form by clicking a field name in the User Field List. In this form you can modify all settings except the field type.

Figure 4.67. VirtueMart Administration: Modifying a Field

You can delete all non-system fields from the User Field List. You just need to click on the Trash Bin icon at the end of the row of the item you want to remove. You can also select the checkboxes of the fields which you want to delete and then click the "Remove" button in the toolbar.