Hi ,
Have read the user ACL Doc for Aution Factory, I assumed it applies to Raffle Factory but here is the problem.

I have no CB or JACL, just vanilla Joomla with Raffle Factory.

All Raffles are "owned " by one admin with administrator rights.

He can add, edit etc raffles no problem, normal regged users can buy tickets no problem.

The appropriate meus are shown /hidden for the 2 different groups.

The problem is when the admin (frontend) wants to close and choose a winner.
On every raffle, doesn't matter if all tickets sold or not, if the raffle is still running or not, he gets the message -

You must choose a winner!

When he clicks on both the "Choose Winner" button at the top (after the alert "Do you really want to?") or "Close to select winners!!" in the ticket tab he gets

You are not authorised to view this resource.

What permissions is he supposed to have to admin his own Raffles?
And why does he get asked to close / choose a winner on every Raffle even though they still have time to run and have tickets available?

And in the administration area of the component,
Firstly what do the toggle icons next to the users mean, there is no explanation that I can find.

Secondly, in the Settings--> General Settings-->User Limits
What is supposed to be configured here?
Again no explanations-....


I have to say I've found a lot more problems in the backend so far, a lot of the tables are coded to display non-existent or meaningless information left over from Auction Factory.

Example the Raffle List table only showed the raffle name and dates, the rest of the columns are from Auction and empty

The Statistics table doesn't show the admin (who owns all the raffles) or show how many tickets various users have bought.. just zeros.

I'm beginning to worry that this component is not going to work?

Lumo....

More corrections for the Admin Users Details section

File admin.bids.php

from line 373
comment out

/*$query="select count(*) as nr_auctions,max(modified) as last_auction_date from #__bid_auctions where userid=$id";
   $database->setQuery($query);
   $res=$database->loadAssocList();
   $lists['nr_auctions']=$res[0]['nr_auctions'];
   $lists['last_auction_placed']=$res[0]['last_auction_date'];

   $query="select count(*) as nr_bids_won from #__bids where userid=$id and accept=1 ";
   $database->setQuery($query);
   $res=$database->loadAssocList();
   $lists['nr_won_bids']=$res[0]['nr_bids_won'];

   $query="select count(*) as nr_bids, max(modified) as last_date from #__bids where userid=$id ";
   $database->setQuery($query);
   $res=$database->loadAssocList();
   $lists['nr_bids']=$res[0]['nr_bids'];
   $lists['last_bid_placed']=$res[0]['last_date'];*/

and replace with

#Find number of tickets
   $query="select ticket_nr, count(ticket_nr) as ticket_count  from #__bid_tickets where user_id=$id ";
   $database->setQuery($query);
   $res=$database->loadAssocList();
   $lists['nr_auctions']=$res[0]['ticket_count'];
   
   #Find number of winning tickets
$query="select count(ticket_nr) as winner_count  from #__bid_tickets where user_id=$id AND winner =1 ";
   $database->setQuery($query);
   $res=$database->loadAssocList();
   $lists['nr_won_bids']=$res[0]['winner_count'];

   #Find last date for user
$query="select boughtdate  from #__bid_tickets where user_id=$id ORDER BY boughtdate DESC LIMIT 1  ";
   $database->setQuery($query);
   $res=$database->loadAssocList();
   $lists['boughtdate']=$res[0]['boughtdate'];

and in admin.bids.html.php replace line 245

<!--<td><?php if($lists['last_bid_placed']) echo $lists['last_bid_placed']; else echo '-';?></td>-->

with

 <td><?php if($lists['boughtdate']) echo $lists['boughtdate']; else echo '-';?></td>

Hi,

For the choose winner task not authorised message you probably use Raffle ACL enabled and the get_winner task is missing from bids.acl.php
You can add the task in the above file in the var $_taskmapping array:
Just add a 'get_winner'=>'seller' at the end of the array so you will have:
             'buytickets'=>'all',
             'get_winner'=>'seller'
(instead of now 'buytickets'=>'all')

The Choose a Winner message is actually a message of winner selection option not inquiring:
So a better message is "You can start the selection of the  winner!".
This message is a deprecated version message that will be corrected right away allong with the ACL missing task issue .

Cheers,
Sorin

Hi again,

That's should have been the ideea of the message:
to notice an user that he can start winner selection:

These conditions must be applied for this
$auction->is_my_auction - I am the auctioneer
$auction->close_offer!= 1 - if it a raffle is closed then either is won either is expired or banned and no winner can be selected in this case
!$auction->winner_id - there is not a winner selected
 && !empty($bid_list) - there ARE tickets bought ( i can't start selecting a winner from 0 users)

For winner selections you have an option for automatic choosing of the winner by clicking the button you where having issues with ACL.
That leads to the winning selection process in stages. The cron must be enabled so this functionality can have effect.

Sorin