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    #1

    How to password protect direct table access

    How can I password protect direct access to a table?

    I am not looking to password protect the table design rather password protect direct access to individual tables (i.e. keeping someone from just double clicking on them).

    I would like to do this without the use of a master password if possible.

    We have tables we prefer to have direct access to so it would be best if I could just place a password on individual tables, much like it is when you password protect the table designs.

    All ideas/feedback is appreciated.
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    Re: How to password protect direct table access

    keeping someone from just double clicking on them
    In what context? Windows, Alpha, ?
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Re: How to password protect direct table access

      From within Alpha.

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        #4
        Re: How to password protect direct table access

        Why are they allowed to view the control panel and double click on tables if there are some you don't want opened that way?

        Easy to control the access by hiding the control panel and create browses and forms for the ones you want to be viewable.
        There can be only one.

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          #5
          Re: How to password protect direct table access

          Originally posted by Scott Kurimski View Post
          ...
          I would like to do this without the use of a master password if possible.
          ...
          You need to use a master password. But you don't need to apply it through the
          standard Alpha UI which forces you to enter the password when opening the application. The work-around is to use an autoexec script which sets the master pwd. You will need to encrypt the tables using xbasic also (simple really).

          BUT, it sounds like all you really want is to keep users out of certain table. Hide the controlpanel and create a menu. In which case you will need to have two or more user names w. passwords to get into the app. Again, Alpha gives you this capability using their security framework - or you can build your own - simple or complex.
          Peter
          AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

           [email protected]
          https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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            Re: How to password protect direct table access

            Originally posted by Peter.Greulich View Post
            ...BUT, it sounds like all you really want is to keep users out of certain table. Hide the controlpanel and create a menu. In which case you will need to have two or more user names w. passwords to get into the app. Again, Alpha gives you this capability using their security framework - or you can build your own - simple or complex.
            Why would you need to use any security system other than a password protected button so the developer could access the control panel? I get the feeling we are thinking about two different situations here but I'm not clear about it.

            All I do is add a button with no text, no border, the 'tab order' box unchecked, and transparent fill. That button runs a script that prompts for a password in order to get to the control panel. (I do NOT like to use hotspots because they are too easy to find - just wave your cursor around until it changes to a finger. I know, it shouldn't matter as long as it's password protected. I guess I'm just anal and don't like the idea of users easily discovering my 'hidden' buttons. I don't think it looks professional to see the cursor changing for things that the user shouldn't be dealing with.)

            HINT: My script also checks the computer name using api_getmachinename() and bypasses the password when I'm working from my computer. I consider this "being lazy" - yes it takes a few extra seconds up front to add another section to the IF statement but it saves lots of time and frustration later on.

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              Re: How to password protect direct table access

              I do NOT like to use hotspots because they are too easy to find
              I think you would like what I have done then in the past! my button is not only invisible but only 1 pixel square! unless you know exactly where it is placed, even if you knew there was a button somewhere, it would take a lot of trying to even just find it. :D
              Mike
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                #8
                Re: How to password protect direct table access

                Now that's getting extreme!

                Here's another idea related to the use of api_getmachinename(). I use this to make a certain button effectively "smaller than one pixel".:D

                IF api_getmachinename() <> "MyComputerName"
                design_btn.hide()
                END IF

                I have a "developer's button" that does more than just get me to the control panel. It gives me the choice of going to the Control Panel, going directly to Design mode in the current form, going to the Code Editor, adding a special 'developer's toolbar' to a form, or jumping to any other form that is open. This button is on most of my forms in generic apps and some custom apps to make development work a bit faster and easier but the OnInit of the form hides it if it isn't on my computer. Even I can't get to it when working on a customer's computer. I don't need it there anyway because I can't get to Design mode or the Code Editor with the runtime - but I might need to get in to the control panel to fix some data so I have a separate button for that.

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                  Re: How to password protect direct table access

                  Originally posted by CALocklin View Post
                  Why would you need to use any security system other than a password protected button so the developer could access the control panel? I get the feeling we are thinking about two different situations here but I'm not clear about it.
                  I might have been making too much out of it. Two different scenarios - yes.

                  Originally posted by CALocklin View Post
                  - just wave your cursor around until it changes to a finger.
                  You mean until it GIVES you the finger!
                  Peter
                  AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                   [email protected]
                  https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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