Re: Training on Mapics Security, etc.

Ha!   Good comments and questions.   Most of the time was my having Jeff
talk to the various users and groups of users (material planners, buyers,
engineers, customer service reps, factory users, etc), and having him do
the custom card work Jeff described in an earlier post  - I'll add it here:

"The trick is to implement field level security - who owns which fields in
which files for updates.

To accomplish this feat you'll need to  add, create customized,  secured
cards/card files across the board and assign specific authorization
groups ?).

At rel 6.0 you cannot change the security of existing cards, card files so
at Fleetwood I copied the application supplied default cards, card files
to an FFT default - and secured.  Then I scraped off all tabs from the
supplied default card file."

To get this done quickly and effectively, I assigned Jeff to the "security
project", and as an outside consultant, he was immune (well, mostly) to the
inevitable never-ending interruptions internal associates experience.  So I
actually got most of the 16 man-days on that project, actually ON that
project.  By the way, as an aside, Jeff didn't use Integrator for this
project.

Dale Gindlesperger
IT Manager/Special Projects Leader
Fleetwood Folding Trailers, Inc.
258 Beacon Street
Somerset, PA  15501