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Why don't we reuse the existing permissions infrastructure (no new Form meta data in database),
> yes we can also say that. true.
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> On 1/21/07, David E. Jones <
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>> So, you're thinking of more of a permission system?
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>> -David
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>> On Jan 21, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Anil Patel wrote:
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>> > If we have Form meta data in Database then we can enhance the screen
>> > rendering system to read field visibility attribute from the database.
>> > So lets say, userLogin.userId belongs to Casher User group. So when
>> > rendering a ScreenA::FormX, System will look for visibility
>> > attributes of
>> > fields on FormX as part of ScreenA for Casher userGroup.
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>> > I have seen PeopleSoft does this.
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>> > Regards
>> > Anil Patel
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>> > On 1/21/07, David E. Jones <
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>> >> On Jan 21, 2007, at 6:33 AM, Anil Patel wrote:
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>> >> > This is great, Can we do this, Save Screen and Form definition in
>> >> > Database
>> >> > (Sceeen and Form widget file will loaded into database.), Party
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>> >> > Preferences set of Entities can be designed to store the
>> >> > information like
>> >> > which field should be visible/hidden for a Party Group..
>> >> > By doing this we can customize what user sees on the Screen.
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>> >> This sounds quite a bit different from what Jacques was proposing,
>> >> but if I understand right what you are proposing this is something
>> >> I'm happy to write long and loud against.
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>> >> What would we gain by putting these things into the database?
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>> >> What will we lose by putting these things into the database?
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>> >> I'm interested in your thoughts so I won't answer these quite yet,
>> >> though if you (or anyone) is interested in my answer this is
>> >> something I've written about in the past quite a bit and you'll find
>> >> stuff in the old mailing list archives. Still, I'd rather hear
>> >> other's opinions about it before I express my own, just to make sure
>> >> I don't miss anything that people might not want to say when I come
>> >> down hard on this. As I mentioned above, I have very strong opinions
>> >> about this and these are based on some very bad experiences.
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>> >> -David
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