Profile

Specify local configuration directive values to be used by logged-in users who have a profile name set in their "userdb.price_level" column.

Synopsis

You can override multiple directives at once, all attached to the same profile label, by using the Perl-style "here document" and hash syntax, as follows:

The label specifies the profile name that will be matched against the value in the logged-in user's "userdb.price_level" column.

Scope

This directive is only available for use in the local (catalog.cfg) configuration file.  It will not affect any other website in any way.  This directive will not work in the global (interchange.cfg) configuration file. 

Description

This facility allows the administrator to override configuration directives for logged-in users, depending upon the profile name set in the user's "userdb.price_level" column.

The "userdb" table name and "price_level" column names are defaults that can be overridden using the UserDB directive.  See the UserDB directive's "database" and "pricing_field" parameters, respectively.

This directive was designed to allow different users, or classes of user, to use different pricing schemes for products.  A simple setup for dealers versus ordinary customers could look like the following in your website's "catalog.cfg" configuration file:

The above configuration sets up the following: 

• Logged-in users who have "dealer" in their "userdb.price_level" (or equivilent) column will make use of the CommonAdjust directive set in the "dealer" Profile.
• Users who have "default" in their "userdb.price_level" (or equivilent) column will make use of the CommonAdjust directive set in the "default" Profile.
• Other users will not use either of the above Profiles, and will therefore use the non-profile CommonAdjust directive shown at the end of the example.

Note that the "default" profile uses the same CommonAdjust settings as the non-profile version of that directive.