Ok. Its been a while since the course and I think I may have forgotten more than I learnt !!

Just looking for a few pointers at this stage. I want to set up a menu type system where there will be say 50 forms, and different users that log in to the app should only be able to run specifc forms.. e.g User Joe might be able to run FormA, FormD and FormG whereas Steve may run Forma, FormB and FormX. (The users would also be in Groups)

Which control would be the most appropriate to use for this type of access. Ideally, when Joe logs in he should only see FormA, FormD and FormG.

In Foxpro, I used GenMenux for this ,but dont necessarily want to use a Menu if some other control is more appropriate or more 'in fashion' these days

Hi Aaron. Sounds like exactly waht I am looking for. When I sais I did not want to use a 3rd party control, I meant a non SF control

At this point, I want to concentrate on SF first and maybe afterwards I will look at other 3rd party controls

Is the functionality you descibe 'in the box' (regarding Rights for different users/groups) or does it require a fair amount of plumbing ?

Gerard,

Yes this is handle by the SF-RBS of course you need to create your form's permission and assign their Keys to the form's ViewSecurityKey. Read about how to setup the RBS and also there is a good white paper on how to setup security here http://forum.strataframe.net/Topic14216-26-1.aspx.

Basically with Aaron's detailed approach I was able to use the RBS to enable/disable menu items in a very short period of time.

Also you need to check each item permission using code like this:

If SecurityBasics.CurrentUser.GetPermission(customViewSecurityKey).Action <> PermissionAction.Grant Then

     Return False

End If

Edhy Rijo