User Menu Level Table (4.x)

BGI

Hey there
Has anyone already looked at the info in the object blob field in the user menu level table.
The reason i ask is because we are looking into a nice way to implement hiding and showing of menu's in version 4.x.
You can do this with the navigation pane desinger, and assigning and removing users. But this is very time consuming. The info is kept, i think, in this table, so if we know how navision stores his data in this table, we can program a more automatic way of doing this...

Maybe also some other idea's for enabling and disabling menu's for groups etc..

Rgds
Benny

Marije_Brummel

The blob is a reference to a custom menusuite layer.

The easiest way to handle menusuites is via User permissions. If you do this on form and report level the menu adopts to the permissions automaticaly, All objects that the user does not have permissions to dissapear.

BGI

Yep, you can setup security per form, but that is the hard way...
You don't need to specify only the forms, but also all subforms etc....
What i'm searching for is an easy way to limit the menus people can see, without having to go to play arround with permissions on object level.

Marije_Brummel

OK.

Have you tried to use this tool already?

http://www.mibuso.com/dlinfo.asp?FileID=512

BGI

Yep,
is the first thing we looked at...
This copies a complete user, so also the contence of the blob file.
Is a step in the good direction, but not the ideal world. Why microsoft doesn't make the format of blob field inside this table public i don't know.. would make work mutch easier...

Rgds
Benny

Marije_Brummel

Maybe you can try to put the content of the blob of the object table in the blob of the menusuite table. Each level of the menusuite objects only contains the differences to the previous level.