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 Edhy,



I have a small handful of special tools (File Exit, Security Editor, Database Connection, Upgrade Database) and for these I use the tool.Key to separate them from my "normal" SF forms. My tool click method first checks the key and if it is one of the above then they are handled separately. For the "File Exit" tool I set the Tag to "NoSecurityCheck" as I want everyone to see it. If the key isn't one of the above then it is a regular form and the Tag contains both the form name and effectively the permission.



You mentioned in a post to Gerard the need to set the form's ViewSecurityKey. In theory it doesn't have to be set. If a form is denied then the tools will be removed and there is no way for the form to be run by the user. SF checks the ViewSecurityKey when the form is run so if you are removing the tool the form can only be run whenever permission has been granted.



Regards,



Aaron

Ok, I got it now. Thanks!





Yes you are right on this, you may get away from setting the ViewSecurityKey, in my case I already have those setup and it may be used as a insurance that the form will be protected in case something is missed. During my test using your approach it was really useful to had the ViewSecurityKey since I call the Security Editor form from another place and the key prevented the form from showing up.

Edhy Rijo