Giving all members permission to see removed auctions / listings

[Nicole]

One major issues is in my oppinion that only admins are able to still see removed listings.

This is a problem because neither the seller nor the buyer will be able to see matter of their business, e.g. the description and images, anymore. I think any member should be able to see remobed images when going to their URL until they really get deleted from the recycle bin.

[SMFHacks]

Possibly just the listing owner? And maybe the buyer/seller

[Nicole]

I think they should be visiable for all registered members. Somebody may bookmark an auction and want to send an offer after it has ended. However without the auction being visible anymore that won't work. Or imagine they may have had the high bid but the reserve was not met.

But yes, atleast the seller and buyer should be able to watch the ended and thgus from the categories removed auction.

[Nicole]

What code would need to be changed to accomplish this?

[SMFHacks]

I guess in this case? Why don't you turn off the delete listing settings
Delete listings if they expire
Auto delete when listing completed
Auto delete when auction completed

[Nicole]

because they will stay visible in the categories then which is no good. expired / completed items should neither appear inside the categories nor come up in a search

[SMFHacks]

Let me know if this helps
Copy to Sources folder

It will allow anyone who bid on the listing the option to view it. Before it was just people who owned the listing or bid on the listing, or were admins.

[Nicole]

Thank you very much! I will give it a try! I will have to compare the code to the stock file as I have made several changes to my fole.