User Options Questions

[Sigrist]

I am working on an application in Alpha 5V5, which other users will be using later and have some questions, which I need help with:

Security
I set up the master password and users. However, whenever I go into run mode, there is no option on the Tools section of the Menu for any of the Security functions. How to I enable them in run mode so that my users can change passwords and maintain user and group lists and change the settings on encrypting data.

Backup and Restore Databases
Same thing � while I have access to all these options in design mode, they disappear in run mode. I found the command Backup_Database(), which does bring up the corresponding window. Is there a command to activate the Restore window as well?

Modal and Modeless Data entry
I would like to give my users the ability to globally change the data entry style between modal and modeless. While I can provide this by letting the users have access to the View-Setting menu option, I normally would remove this option in a custom menu. Is there an X-Basic command to globally turn modal data entry on and off (rather than doing it individually on every form)?

Print Options
When assigning a button to print a report, the only options are Print and Preview. The Print Genie inside A5, however, gives the additional options of E-Mail etc. Is there an easy way to provide all options to my users as well?


Any help on the above questions is appreciated.

Andy Sigrist

[AaronBBrown]

RE: User Options Questions

Regarding Security...

This is a feature which is not available yet. We will possibly release it at a later date as an addin, but right now you can only use the master password feature.

[Sigrist]

RE: User Options Questions

What about the Backup and Restore options? And what about a global way to turn modeless / modal on and off?

Andy

[Selwyn Rabins]

RE: User Options Questions

to let users change their own password, and to perform other operations on the list of users, (if you did not want to use the built in dialogs), you would have to write your own dialogs. the "what's new in xbasic" lists a whole bunch of functions that let you manipulate the user accounts information

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to globally set the data entry style, you would set the data entry style for all of your forms/browses to "system" on the "data entry" tab on form/browse properties.

then you would use this xbasic so set the registry (same as what the view/settings dialog does)


delete p
p.mode = "Modeless"
:registry.save_settings("init\DataEntry",p)

or

delete p
p.mode = "Modal"
:registry.save_settings("init\DataEntry",p)

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to display the "restore database" dialog (for the situation where there is NO current database open), you execute this xbasic:

addin.run("overlay_restore_no_db")

to display the "restore" database dialog that is displayed when you are in a database, you run this xbasic:

addin.run("overlay_restore")

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