Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Basic Development

Using security documentation

Administrators and programmers set up and maintain security with the framework’s Security Control tool. You can access the tool through the Security menu in the Progress Dynamics Administration window.

OpenEdge Development: Progress Dynamics Administration describes the security functions that are system-wide settings or those that administrators use to define and maintain users, groups, and profiles. This chapter describes how to define security on application objects and apply them to specific users, groups, and application elements.

Table 13–1 summarizes which parts of the Security Control tool documentation you can find in OpenEdge Development: Progress Dynamics Administration and which documentation you can find here.

Table 13–1: Security Control tool documentation

Tree node	Description	Documented in
Security control	The topmost node of the tool’s tree. Provides the administrator with system-wide settings for the application and the development environment.	OpenEdge Development: Progress Dynamics Administration
Security maintenance: Login companies Users Security groups User categories Users	Lets you define and maintain users, groups, and organizational entities.	OpenEdge Development: Progress Dynamics Administration
Security maintenance: Actions Data ranges Fields	Lets you define and maintain security for application objects.	This chapter
Security Allocation	Lets you define specific access rights for users, groups, or companies. You can define access based on an action, a field, or a data range. You can define access rights for any menu, menu item, container, or login company. You can also define access rights to specific database tables and even specific records within tables.	This chapter
Security enquiry	Gives you several ways to search and filter existing security settings. Demonstrates how security allocations will be resolved at run time.	This chapter
Security processing	Gives you the ability to create a new security group based on an existing user.	OpenEdge Development: Progress Dynamics Administration