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    Web Security Groups list

    Is there a way to get a list/grid of

    userID and checkboxes for the different security groups.

    something like this:

    userID Admin Finance Manager AnotherGroup

    user01 x x x x
    user02 _ _ x
    user03 _ _ _ x
    Last edited by kstans; 12-27-2017, 11:30 AM.

    #2
    Re: Web Security Groups list

    Alpha has some built in templates for handling user security. Have you already looked at them?
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      #3
      Re: Web Security Groups list

      Yes. There is not a template to do what I need. I cant see how to tie groups and users together on one row.

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        #4
        Re: Web Security Groups list

        I think we have all done this in the past in a Detail section, one user at a time (see image). But I can see how it can be done in rows, or at least I could try. Do you want real checkboxes so the Admin can toggle a user in and out of a group with a simple checkbox?
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          #5
          Re: Web Security Groups list

          Assuming you have migrated your web security tables to SQL, you should be able to create a cross tab query for use in a LIST on a UX.

          It is possible to make the data updateable, but you have to code all the update code yourself by picking apart the submitted LIST data.

          I was talking to someone at a AA conference a couple years ago that had turned their crosstab query from a LIST into something that could write changes back to the DB.

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            #6
            Re: Web Security Groups list

            You should never access security tables directly, but should only use security function such as a5ws_* functions or the Context.Security methods. The Context.Security methods are preferred as they are native to IIS, are fully supported on the standard server, and will work in all authentication systems including Active Directory.

            There are a number of reasons for this as the built in methods include special provisions for data validation and data integrity. Since they are supported on both IIS and the standard server, you can switch from one server to the other with no changes. If you edit the data directly, it is quite possible to cause a data corruption problem that cannot be corrected, resulting in a unusable security system.

            It is possible to get a list of the roles for a user with relatively simple xbasic if all you want to do is view the roles. You can use methods such as Context.Security.GetUsers() to get a list of users, and then Context.Security.GetUserRoles to find their roles. This could be done in a simple array and then output to a list if using a UX

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              #7
              Re: Web Security Groups list

              Yes a list of users, with a list of check boxes

              Each user would have his own row. And each row would have a check box for each security group.

              That would be ideal if there is a way to make that happen.

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                #8
                Did you manage to create such a list to manage security?

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                  #9
                  The component in this link is soon to be released.

                  https://forum.alphasoftware.com/foru...ntext-security
                  Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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