give custom roles for administrator only ,so problem in displaying other menus in admin panel

Question

i went to system > configuration > users .

i select "Administrators" and than "custom" than i selected some dashboard", newsletter and click on save.

now when i open admin panel with administrator, its showing only "dashboard" and "sales" and "system"

menu. please help me to find how to get back the other menus in admin panel.

Answer 1

You can run the following queries to reset it:

DELETE FROM admin_rule WHERE role_id = 1 AND resource_id != 'all';
UPDATE admin_rule SET permission = 'allow' WHERE role_id = 1;

This is assuming that the Administrator role_id is 1.

Answer 2

In your database there are 4 tables regarding admin roles, users and rule. Open the table admin_role and from there you will be able to change the role the admin user have. My user looks like this: