Best Practices: Superuser Catalog Access to all items

Summary

Best practices tip for superuser access to all items

Content

Customers / Support

I wanted to write this article as an attempt to clarify some concepts in configuring Catalogs and providing users access to Catalogs.

Customer Issue Reported:

This customer provided the following problem statement:

When opening the shopping home page, an error is thrown (See image attached).

Root cause analysis:

Development triaged this from first principles, i.e. Review the Content Zone and Catalog setup. On further detailed review, it was revealed that this specific user was a 'superuser' to whom the buying organization wanted to grant access to all items across all catalogs.