What's the best way...

[Walker, Chris]

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I agree that it's inadvisable to modify the update procedure, but I hate the
idea of relying for security on junior programmers rembering to code
something in the preupdate procedure.

FWIW, "that conditional compile crap" is nothing more than the following.
I've never found it especially onerous to maintain, but you could avoid the
effort entirely by spending a couple of hours writing a simple DCL
preprocessor to compile two versions of every screen.

@IF RW
screen x-w activities entry, find, change.....
@ELSE
screen x-r activities find
@ENDIF

Chris Walker
Tate and Lyle
London

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	STEWARTM@dteenergy.com [SMTP:STEWARTM@dteenergy.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 18, 1999 2:57 PM
> To:	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject:	Re: What's the best way...
> 
>  
> Why are you changing the UPDATE procedure???  Don't do that.  This is what
> the 
> PREUPDATE procedure is for.  What is wrong with a couple of lines of 
> procedural code?  It better that maintaining two screens and that
> conditional 
> compile crap. 
>  
> Just do the following...(You can specify an ASC for a user instead of a 
> signonuser.) 
>  
> IF NOT MATCHUSER("CERTAIN_ASC")  
>    THEN  
>       BEGIN 
>          ERROR "*E* Only CETAIN_ASC can update." 
>       END 
>  
> If you want to do it for a particular field then put it in the EDIT
> procedure 
> for that field. 
>  
> Hope this helps. 
> ----------------------
> Mark Stewart 
> Consultants Club Corp. 
> Windsor, Ontario 
> Canada << Message: What's the best way... >> 

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