Creating menu security allocations
Suppose you want to restrict access to the Security menu in the Progress Dynamics Administration menu for a user named Anthony. You might need to identify the menu structure before you can create an allocation.
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To determine the name of a target menu structure: |
- Open the Toolbar and Menu Designer tool, then choose the Lookup icon in the toolbar, as shown:
- Because you are looking for a menu structure, or band, select the Bands tab. The band you are looking for is a top-level menu item that acts as the parent for all the security items. This is a SubMenu band:
- Open the SubMenu node in the TreeView and locate the entry with the description Security Options.
- Select it. Its key code displays on the right, along with all the containers where it is used, as shown:
In this case, the menu structure identifier, or Band Code, is ICFAF-Secu, and the one place where it is used is in the container afallmencw. This is the logical object name of the Administration window. If you need more information about a logical object, such as afallmencw, open it using the Open Object button in the AppBuilder, or you can examine it in the Repository Maintenance tool.
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To apply security to a menu structure: |
- Open the Security allocation node and the Menu structures subnode, as shown:
- Specify the user or group and login company for this allocation. For the example, define the allocation for the user name Anthony and Login company <All>.
- Choose the Refresh button to see a list of menu structures, or use the Filter tab to identify it, as shown:
- Select the ICFAF-Secu row in the browser and click
to define the allocation. - Click Save:
- To see the effects of your change, exit Dynamics Development.
- Restart Dynamics Development and log in as the user Anthony.
- Choose Tools Administration. You see the Administration window as Anthony will see it, without the Security structure, as shown:
- Repeat Steps 6 through 8, logging in as Admin. Notice the normal Administration window with the Security menu, as shown:
This section can use the Administration window as an example of security settings because this window, like most Progress Dynamics framework tools, is implemented in the framework itself.