Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Advanced Development

Security Manager

The Security Manager controls access to:

Menus and menu items.
Objects such as folder tabs and buttons that have named security tokens.
Data fields.
Specific database tables and records.

All of these types of security are maintained in the Security menu of the Administration window. The Security Manager also keeps track of application user and password definitions. There is a chapter on how to define users and then apply security restrictions for those users in OpenEdge Development: Progress Dynamics Basic Development .