Purpose: This document provides information on using the Security Key Type Editor to search for security keys and retrieve them from the database at design-time.

Invoking the Security Key Type Editor

The Security Key Type Editor is used to set the *SecurityKey properties on business objects, forms, and fields on business objects through the Business Object Mapper.

The exact properties that support this type editor are:

• Business Object Properties:
  • AddSecurityKey
  • EditSecurityKey
  • DeleteSecurityKey
  • QuerySecurityKey
• BaseForm Properties:
  • ViewSecurityKey

In order to invoke the type editor on one of these properties, click the ... button within the box for the property value.

Using the Security Key Type Editor

The Seccurity Key type editor is used to search for a specific security key (permission key) that has been created through the Security Maintenance Editor and assign it to a specific property.

File Group Properties Dialog Fields
	Key	You can search by either the security key name or the category name or both.
	Category	You can search by either the security key name or the category name or both.
	Search	Click Search or press the enter key to execute the search.
	Clear	The Clear button clears the search results and the Key: and Category: fields.
	Results List	The results list contains the results of the search. It displays the Security Key, Category, and Description of the permission.
	Status Bar	The status bar lists the number of results found by the search.
	OK	Clicking OK closes the form and enters the selected security key in the property being edited.
	Cancel	Clicking Cancel closes the form and does not modify the value of the property being edited.

Once the security key is located, double-click the record within the results list or select the record within the results list and click OK.

 

 

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