Getting MVS to work with osCMax

[earth-friendly]

Hi. I recently installed osCMax, and I just modified and installed the MVS (Multi Vendor Shipping) contribution into my copy of osCMax.
Perhaps when I get it working properly, I can post the contribution to oscdox--is there a way to do that?

I'm having a little trouble getting things to work properly with the "Admin w/access levels" contribution.
Initially, when I went to the admin page, and clicked on any of the vendor links (Vendor management, Vendors, Product Reports, or Vendors Orders List), I got an error-- something like "No Right Permission Access". It basically said that I didn't have permission to access that link.
I looked around in the code, and found the admin_files database table, and it looked like I needed to have entries in that table for the files: vendors.php, prods_by_vendor.php, orders_by_vendor.php, move_vendor_prods.php.

I couldn't find any documentation on this table (is there anything I could look at???), but I guessed as follows:
I inserted 4 records into the table:
insert into admin_files (admin_files_id, admin_files_name, admin_files_is_boxes, admin_files_to_boxes, admin_groups_id) values ('124', 'vendors.php', '0', '124', '1');
insert into admin_files (admin_files_id, admin_files_name, admin_files_is_boxes, admin_files_to_boxes, admin_groups_id) values ('125', 'prods_by_vendor.php', '0', '124', '1');
insert into admin_files (admin_files_id, admin_files_name, admin_files_is_boxes, admin_files_to_boxes, admin_groups_id) values ('126', 'orders_by_vendor.php', '0', '124', '1');
insert into admin_files (admin_files_id, admin_files_name, admin_files_is_boxes, admin_files_to_boxes, admin_groups_id) values ('127', 'move_vendor_prods.php', '0', '124', '1');

I was then able to click on the vendor links.
But then when I went to the links, I noticed that the vendor links didn't show up in the box on the left, so I went to the "File Access" link (admin_files.php), and for "Vendors", I clicked on the green button to install the vendors box.
The Vendors links now show up in the box on the left, but I now have 2 records in the admin_files table for "vendors.php".
What should I do to fix this? Should I not have done the original inserts into the table? Should I have just gone to the admin_files.php and clicked on the green button?
Should I now remove the 4 entries that I added?

Thanks very much for any help with this.
I'm hoping I didn't totally mess things up. I looked all over the forums to try to find any kind of description of the admin_files table.

By the way, I initially posted this question in forums.oscommerce.com, in a thread for the Multi-Vendor Shipping contribution, and I got scolded for posting about osCMax. Yikes! I thought it was a reasonable question about getting mvs to work with "Admin with Access Levels".

[earth-friendly]

Ok, I deleted the 4 entries that I had added to the admin_files table, and then I clicked on the "file access" link (admin_files.php). I clicked on the green button for "Vendors". I now have access to the vendors.php file. However, when I click on any of the sub-links under the "Vendors" link in the left box, I still get the error "No Right Permission Access
Please contact your Web Administrator to request
more access or if you found any problem."

What is the correct way to handle this?

Thanks very much.

[Wolga]

If I missed this in the forums, sorry.


Has anyone actually successfully installed the MVS mod under osCMax?


I can use winmerge to get mods installed but if it requires complex php re-coding to make a mod work then I'm out of luck. I'm tryng to learn php and bring myself along but it's slow going.

Does the MVS mod install and work ok just by correctly merging it into the existing osCMax files?

Just wondering before trying, only to find that it's not doable by the average user.

Thanks ahead,
John Wolgamot