Giving limited backend access to employees

[EvanGR]

Hello,

We want to give limited VM backend access to a new employee.

Besides restricting access to certain functions, we also want to hide information, such as the number of sales, profits, and any other sensitive/financial information.

What are the possibilities? Can we create a tweaked backend template just for certain users?

Thanks

[Studio 42]

You can do an overide in your template and remove all admin template except the default admin template(isis)
Then you check for user group or level
The data are get using this code :

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$user   = JFactory::getUser();
$superUser = $user->get('isRoot');// is a super user
$user->getAuthorisedGroups();//give all groups
$user->getAuthorisedViewLevels();//give access levels
or

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$groups = JAccess::getGroupsByUser($user->id);//give all groups
$levels = JAccess::getAuthorisedViewLevels($user->id);//give access levels

[EvanGR]

Thanks Studio42.

And then I can selectively hide parts of the Virtuemart backend, for that specific user (who will be an Administrator too I suppose).

Correct?

[Studio 42]

Correct (using the user->id)
But better use another group or acces level, so you can disable access to other things too

[EvanGR]

I need a little more assistance on this.

What is the recommended way to add a new store employee account, and set the permissions? (= easiest way, minimum amount of configuration required)

- What kind of Joomla user? Do I make them a super user? Editor? Something else?

(Initially it's 1 new employee, but there may be more with the same permissions.)

- How do I get the current user group id? (or even better, the group title)
I prefer to filter by stuff by group id, instead of user id, to be able to handle more employees in the future.

Thanks

[Studio 42]

The best is too inherit it from register user group, so you add only needed rights or use the manager group perhaps and add some right if you dont want modify all permissions.