Making certain section links available to only one user group

[novasilver]

hello I wonder if anyone can help me. I have just upgraded from actinic express to actinic business. We have wholesale customers and retail customers.
Wholesale customers have to get a log on from us (this is done). They get lower prices displayed to them (this is done). Certain sections should be hidden from them so that they cannot see these products and cannot get a link to them. (All of these products are set up as non wholesale but I cannot get the menu not to display these options) This should not effect the layout or style of the menu options when they are shown to retail customers.
Retail customers can buy without login in or they can create their own retail log on and they should see all sections of the menu.

I have used the advanced guide to enter the code suggested in section

Preventing Unregistered Customers from Entering Certain Sections in your Store

and

Bouncing Unregistered Customers Out of Sections

This works for removing the link from the section in the main page but the links still remain in the menu on the left side. Also when the retail customer logs in the formatting of the links on the main page for the retail only links is lost.

Can anyone help me as I am new to this and am having problems with this one last thing

[JSnow]

Welcome Julie,

I'm no expert but it sounds like a block if solution is what you're after.

The left menu is populated using the Top Level Section Lists layout and you will need to wrap the code that populates this menu in a block if.

If you already know which layout is being used, browse through to it via Design | Library | Layouts | Top Level Section Lists

If not, to see which layout is being used, select your homepage and click on the design tab. Scroll down through the code until you see:

<!-- left column section -->
"Pink text"
<!-- end left column section -->

Double click on the pink text to get to the layout being used. Double click on the next line of pink text to expose the code and wrap that in a block if that will test whether the person is logged in or not.

That should do the job.