Agents and duplicate email addresses

[laurenced]

Hi all

My client has several affiliated real estate companies, and I want to create an account for each so that those affiliates can log into our website and create listings. However, I want it to appear that there is only one agent - my client. This seems easy enough (just set all agents' names and images to my client's) but OR won't allow me to duplicate the email address for all the agents. It gives me a message saying that the email address is already registered.

Is there any way around this?

I could hardcode the email address into the template of the listings pages, but that wouldn't work when users click to contact us about a property (OR would send the email to whatever email addy I had put in the account section).

Any ideas would be helpful! Is it possible to hardcode the email address to which the Contact About This Property form sends its contents? That would solve the problem!

[pbflash]

You could modify the mail function to send everything to 1 address but that would require core file changes which are not recommended, supported, and cannot be posted to the forum. My contact form addon allows you to set an email address to override the agents email.

[laurenced]

OK I have solved the issue with the help of Sonli. Here's another related question: is it possible to disable the Edit My Account button in the Agents' admin area? I've looked thru the core files but I can't find it. The reason I ask is because we create the accounts for the affiliates; they don't do it themselves -- and we don't want them to be able to change any of the details since there is no good reason for them to do so.

I realise this will probably involve editing core files; if someone could PM me even the relevant file which I should be looking inside then that would be great.

Cheers!

You could modify the mail function to send everything to 1 address but that would require core file changes which are not recommended, supported, and cannot be posted to the forum. My contact form addon allows you to set an email address to override the agents email.

[sonli]

in admin template or_index.html you can add permission tags({check_admin}) for "Edit my account" div..

[sonli]

Hi all

My client has several affiliated real estate companies, and I want to create an account for each so that those affiliates can log into our website and create listings. However, I want it to appear that there is only one agent - my client. This seems easy enough (just set all agents' names and images to my client's) ....

Why do you do it like that then? Donot get the agent's info into the listing detail page;if you want it to seem there is only one agent, in listing detail template for the agent part write:

Agent: Your Agent
Phone: 123456
.... etc. and if you want a field from affiliates for example "ref";
Reference: {listing_agent_field_reference}

[laurenced]

in admin template or_index.html you can add permission tags({check_admin}) for "Edit my account" div..

Cool that did it. Glad I didn't have to touch any core files. I also did what you said in your other post (and what I talked about above) and hard coded the contact info on the listings pages. Everything's sorted now!

Cheers!

[azerty]

hey, don't worry, because I found a big problem in OR which for you is of benefit.

When I was cheking OR 2.5.6 I noticed:
when you register as a new agent or member, if you put an email address which already exist, you will get an error message " Sorry, your email address is already registered for an account here.".

Now you can write another email address and go further with registration. anyway, OR doesn't have a system for authentification of email address, !!!
afeter it, you can go to your admin page as an agent, and change your email address to what you want, let say to an existing email address from somebody else or other existing email addresses from yourself!

this is a big bug, but for you is a good way to solve your problem.

there are some customers who mailed me claiming that they received in their inbox some notification, I checked and in fact somebody else changed his email address to the email of the other agents !!!!!

Is there somebody who can help me to solve this problem, please?

azerty

[pbflash]

Is there somebody who can help me to solve this problem, please?

File a bug report so it can be fixed in future versions. The fix would require core file changes which can only be posted in the sandbox area of the forum and the changes are not supported.

[azerty]

File a bug report so it can be fixed in future versions. The fix would require core file changes which can only be posted in the sandbox area of the forum and the changes are not supported.

hi PbFlash
I wanted to post it in bugs, but the bug report category in forum has been closed, where can I post this bug and how, ?

[pbflash]

Only the 1.0 section is closed. The 2.0 bug report area is right under the General Help forum in the 2.0 section.