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    Is there a way to unlock content

    Hi,
    We are considering having a "premium member" where they are given permission to certain areas of the site. Similar to how the Washington Post or New York Times shows you a bit of an article but then you have to log in to see the rest. Is there anything like this in miva or is there a module that I can buy?

    Thanks

    #2
    Re: Is there a way to unlock content

    I haven't seen something like that written for Merchant. A good access control membership manager product is http://www.amember.com/
    David Hubbard
    CIO
    Miva
    [email protected]
    http://www.miva.com

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      #3
      Re: Is there a way to unlock content

      You could use an availability group. Use catagories, assigned to the availability group, without any products assigned with your premium member content. The content would only be visible to those who are logged in to their account and assigned to the group.
      Ron Frigon
      Jedi Webmaster Obi-Ron Kenobi

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        #4
        Re: Is there a way to unlock content

        If you wanted to use a miva "Page" for your content you could do something like this:

        Code:
        Article preview...
        <mvt:item name="toolkit" param="agroup|acount" />
        <mvt:if expr="g.acount GT 0">
          <mvt:foreach iterator="customer_agroup" array="customer_agroups">
            <mvt:if expr="g.customer_agroups CIN 'your_group_code'"> 
            The rest of the story... 
            </mvt:if>
          </mvt:foreach>
          <mvt:else>
          Log in to read more... 
        </mvt:if>
        Requires Toolkit, which you probably already have, and an availability group.
        Ron Frigon
        Jedi Webmaster Obi-Ron Kenobi

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          #5
          Re: Is there a way to unlock content

          We do something similar with our continuing education course documents. We upload two versions of each document to the Amazon cloud. One version is for the public side of our web site and the other is only available to purchasers. We add a 4-character code to the file name of the latter so people can't guess the file name. In our case the only difference between the two pdf files is that the free version cannot be copied or printed but there is no reason that they could not have different content.

          Here's a sample of each:
          http://s3.amazonaws.com/suncam/npdocs/070.pdf
          http://s3.amazonaws.com/suncam/pdocs/070_QQM3.pdf
          Bill Dunn
          SunCam, Inc.
          http://www.SunCam.com
          [email protected]

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            #6
            Re: Is there a way to unlock content

            I just stumbled upon this while looking for something totally unrelated but this has solved a previous question on how to hide the buy button from someone who is not a member. Thank you Ron!!!
            Leslie Kirk
            Miva Certified Developer
            Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
            Previously of Webs Your Way
            (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

            Email me: [email protected]
            www.lesliekirk.com

            Follow me: Twitter | Facebook | FourSquare | Pinterest | Flickr

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              #7
              Re: Is there a way to unlock content

              Well, posted too soon, but I think I may be on the right track. I need to be able to has 2-3 products that are available all the time - sort of if not these, then do this, along with the you need to be logged in.
              Leslie Kirk
              Miva Certified Developer
              Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
              Previously of Webs Your Way
              (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

              Email me: [email protected]
              www.lesliekirk.com

              Follow me: Twitter | Facebook | FourSquare | Pinterest | Flickr

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                #8
                Re: Is there a way to unlock content

                Anna,

                We have something, that while it wasn't designed to do this, could easily support this type of "gating". All it does is the gating...doesn't deal with assignments, collecting payment, etc...but would be easy to use to block part of any content based on customer id.

                Send me an email if you still need this and I can send you demo copy.
                Bruce Golub
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