Database of Messages

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Mon Aug 9 15:11:57 PDT 2004


Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Rod Caddy been jivin' 'bout like:
> Windows 98/XP/2000/2003/whatever is next.  Filepro 5.0
> 
> I am trying to come up with a way to create a database of messages to use 
> in msgbox and errbox and then call that database when certain events 
> happen.  Example would be:  We have a login procedure for all users of our 
> towing product.  The user information is kept in a datbase and each is 
> given a designation of user, supervisor, or super user.  We can easily 
> determine who they are and their designation.  Without creating extra 
> filepro processes or having a user have multiple sessions of filepro 
> running for one login, I want to be able to capture which menu selection 
> they select and then determine if they have access to that area of the 
> program.  This can be helpful because I have literally put new passwords 
> on back office menus 5 times in one day.  If I can create this where it is 
> somewhat generic then it becomes more functional across other products I 
> am working on.  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I don't quite understand the breakpoint at which you wish to insert such
code.  Do you want to do it right after they select at runmenu and before
they hit -any- instance of *clerk or *report, or do you want to handle it
as they're coming into processing?

mark->
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