Read Only Access to Files

[Bob Simcoe]

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> Behalf Of melancon at cajun.net
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 2:07 PM
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> Subject: Read Only Access to Files
> 
> I am running Window version of FilePro 5.0.14 DN9 with Window Server.
> 
> How would one go about giving a user Read Only Access to certain files?
> 
> would this be done through a custom menu?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Henry W. Melancon
> Gulf Island, LLC
> 
> 
You could just copy the file without the data to a new file. Use the ! field markers on the new file screens and add a field, the only field accessible, to the new file as a prompt. Use input processing in the new file to copyin the desired record and to allow movement through screens if necessary. Enter the newfile from the menu in the update mode -xa. To leave the viewing  process use a  @sk to leave the prompt field with a then line of "delete; close; exit", so you don't create a useless record in the new file. The original file is never updated.

Bob Simcoe