My website has two main types of plan, a magazine subscription or website access only (free). They are set up as mutually exclusive children of the same parent (top).

Magazine subscription is marked as "always show children".
There are four different types of magazine subscription which are implemented as mutually exclusive children of the magazine subscription plan, which has no cost in itself.

If someone with website only access tries to access content they need a subscription for CBSubs steps in and points this out, which is great, but the page offered only shows the Magazine Subscription plan, selected, and then when the user presses the "Upgrade" button it gives the message

Chosen plans combination is not allowed (you must choose coherent plans selection, e.g. mandatory subscription(s) must be active or mandatory plan(s) must be chosen). 'Magazine Subscription' has mandatory options 'UK Print Subscription', 'Europe Print Subscription', 'World Print Subscription', 'Electronic Subscription' and none is selected.
Please press back button and select the subscription plan to which you would like to upgrade.

Unfortunately those sub-plans aren't displayed, as I've said, so the user can't upgrade! Waaaaaaaah!

The only thing I can think of is that the "Magazine Subscription" plan is the same price as website only (free). But I don't have a way around that I can see if that is the problem...
Any thoughts?

Latest versions (1.2.2 & 1.0.3, Joomla 1.5.15).
Website nhmag.co.uk

Post edited by: MarkRS, at: 2010/04/07 18:10

Post edited by: MarkRS, at: 2010/04/07 18:13

Post edited by: krileon, at: 2010/04/08 21:59

Post edited by: MarkRS, at: 2010/04/10 17:57

This is somewhat inconvenient.
I have ten years of magazines, publishing six a year with an average of twelve web pages per issue.

That's something like 600 pages to control, plus menus for them, and increasing.

Having to replicate that protection four times, and an extra number with every issue, that's a real pain given how clunky the interface is.

Do I have a clever option? Because this option is really a problem.

Thanks for that.

Yup, I do see your point, and I still think it is an issue.

A "workaround" I can see is copying the entire set of permissions in the database (can you tell I'm a database developer? ).

All those permissions are contained in the field "integrations" in the _cbsubs_plans table.

Certainly in the meantime this seems like my most sensible option. Do you think the fix you've asked for would make it best to set the options at the parent level again?

Yes, I agree that changing the section or category of the plans might also be a smart way to do it, but with Joomla 1.6 looming that doesn't seem to be a very sensible thing to do just now, d'you think?