magento-1.6

I created a website for online shopping and i want to give my admin panel to some vendors so that they insert their own products related with a particular category they are dealing with. For ex :- In electronics category,there are various options like cameras, mobiles etc. 1.So, i want one vendor who is related with mobiles should be allowed only to enter his related products(only mobiles) from admin panel. 2.And he should not be allowed to see or update the products in other categories like cameras.He will only be given access to update his related category. How can i achieve this? Thanks

First of all, I found similar questions in SO but there is not any answer for them. So, the first part of the question is a little bit duplicated. I want to improve search results in Magento. Here is what I've done already: 1. Search with AND instead of OR when there are multiple words. 2. Ajax search starts searching from anywhere and not only from the beginning of the fields. 3. Trim the last s from the words to prevent empty results when searching with plurals. 4. I changed the search type from Like to Fulltext or Combine but the results were not better and even were worst, so I leave it as

I am using magento for a time now. I wanted to know is it possible to enable Cash On Delivery option for admin use only. I want to use it as Store Pickup... So this way manual orders can be only created in admin panel for those who want Store Pickup. I dont want this to be shown in Magento Frontend Store. Can you all help me out ??? Joseph at SwiftOtter There are a number of ways to achieve this, but they require a familiarity with the Magento ecosystem. I would discourage using CSS to hide it from the end user, because someone that was slightly knowledgeable about CSS could easily unhide it

Last days as a result of some customer complains and discussion with our marketing guys I've got a request to change the default behavior of the configurable products options. They asked me to remove the + $xx.xx from the options drop-down as it is confusing the customers/visitors and just leave the available options without displaying the price change. Fair enough from their point of view, but it is a bit tricky from developers point of view I think. The site is running Magento CE 1.6.2, and the file which we need to override/change is /public_html/js/varien/configurable.js. We need to change

I am trying to update the stock quantities of products in Magento from within a script. I load the product, set the stock quantity, and save - but the quantity remains unchanged. // get stock data $stockData = $product->getStockItem(); printf(PHP_EOL.'Stock: qty=%d, instock=%s, man_stock=%s, use_cfg_man_stock=%s'.PHP_EOL, $stockData->getData('qty'), $stockData->getData('is_in_stock'), $stockData->getData('manage_stock'), $stockData->getData('use_config_manage_stock') ); // prints out qty=0, instock=, man_stock=, use_cfg_man_stock= // $stockQty = 1 $product->stockItem->setData('qty', $stockQty)