Groups Catalog

Groups Catalog

This version only supports Magento 1.5 and older
For Magento 1.6 and newer use the rewrite and more feature-rich version of this extension.

You can specify a default for all categories and products under System / Catalog / Customer Groups Catalog There you can also choose to disable the extension. The default after installation is no categories or products are hidden. You can override the default from the configuration in the Product Management and Category Management pages.

This extension is a lot more flexible then the <a href="../../../../extension/reviews/module/490/login-only-catalog">Netzarbeiter_LoginCatalog</a> and <a href="../../../../extension/489">Netzarbeiter_CustomerActivation</a> modules, but it is also more complex. I suggest not installing this extension together with <a href="../../../../extension/reviews/module/490/login-only-catalog">Netzarbeiter_LoginCatalog</a>, as that doesn't really make sense.

Now supports Magento 1.4 and 1.5

If you ever uninstall the extension (I don't hope so ;)) your site will be broken, because Magento doesn't support a mechanism to remove attributes with an extension, and this extension uses source models. To fix the Error, you have to execute the following SQL:

Don't forget to clear the cache, afterwards.

Dataflow: Check this post for information on how to get it to work (thanks to sosuke!):
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/28303/#t103506

TODO:
- When all products in a wishlist are hidden, show the "No items in wishlist" template instead of an empty grid.

Changelog:
0.4.7 Fix another bug introduced during the refactoring in versin 0.4.5
0.4.6 Fix bugs introduced during the previous update. Sorry!
0.4.5 Fix GroupsCatalog to work with the Magento 1.5 ImportExport module
0.4.4 Fix problem with uploaded extension archive
0.4.3 Fix another layered navigation bug in 1.5
0.4.2 Fix the isAnchor Bug - thanks to Gabriel Heter for the pointer to the patch!
0.4.1 Fix the result count in the advanced search
0.4.0 Added redirect on product hidden page (thanks to Jonathan Day for the original patch!)
0.3.9 Magento 1.4.2 compatibility release
0.3.8 Bugfix, now also filters out hidden products from bundled product options
0.3.7 Select default value in backend for products and catgories without any value for the hide_group attribute
0.3.6 Some changes to fix hiding categories in the top navigation in 1.4.1.1
0.3.5 Add attribute backend model
0.3.4 Add category attribute to attribute set and group so it is editable in category management page in Magento 1.4
0.3.3 Magento 1.4 compatibility updates
0.3.2 Make extension work with SOAP/XML-RPC API calls
0.3.1 Dutch locale (nl_NL) added, thanks to Dirk Dinnewet!
0.3.0 Make "Select All" Checkbox in Visible Products Grid usable
0.2.9 Update product attribute backend model0.2.8 Fix bugfix from release 0.2.7 *sigh* Sorry about that
0.2.7 Fix bug in customergroups source model when saving a product after adding it to a new category (Thanks to Don Gilbert!) 0.2.6 The Edit Customer Page has a new tab to enable/disable product accessibility for the customers group. Also, if enabled in the config section the db field size can be dynamically resized if required for complex permission configurations with 20+ groups. Thanks to Liana DiCicco for sponsoring the development.
0.2.5 Magento 1.3.1 compatibility issues (more to come with one of the next mage releases... had to work around awkward implementation quirks)
0.2.4 fixed layered navigation translation namespace
0.2.3 add compatibility to the flat catalog in magento 1.3
0.2.2 added French locale, thanks to vacmar!
0.2.1 try to keep compatibility with Magento 1.1.8 for a bit longer (thanks to Mark Walsham for reporting)
0.2.0 uses a better way to fix the issue fixed in 0.1.9 :)
0.1.9 fixes a bug with the global scope category names being used instead of the store view settings
0.1.8 clears the layered navigation cache for products if the groupscatalog config was changed
0.1.7 fixes the block caching of the layered navigation
0.1.6 fixes the layered navigation
0.1.5 fixed sitemap generation - now uses settings for not logged in customers.
0.1.4 fixes the advanced search bug, and features a rewrite of the filter logic (smaller code base and better compatibility with other modules)
0.1.3 fixes compatibility with Magento 1.1.7 and above
0.1.2: Fixed bug introduced with 0.1.1 (bad start here, sorry for that. Thanks to Tom Arnst for notifying me)
0.1.1: Navigation block caching fixed

If you have ideas for improvements or find bugs, please send them to vinai@netzarbeiter.com, with Netzarbeiter_GroupsCatalog as part of the subject.