RE: usage of indictators with menu options

I suppose it would, howver how much additional maintenance would be required 
later on? It seems though no matter which option we choose it will require 
us to make changes to each menu, since this could happen with any particular 
menu at any particular time.


On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:03:27 +0100, Barton, Mike wrote
> >We have been using indicators with our menu options to turn on or off
> >certain functions, programs, etc. based on a users security settings.
> As >an example, our Billing Menu uses *IN51 if it is set to *ON then 
> the user >can access that menu, if not, it is not even displayed for 
> them. snip....
> 
> Doug
>       rather than suggest a radical re-design :)
> 
> isn't it a straightforward change to simply save the Master Menu 
> authority indicators into a long field and then restore them just 
> before exfmting (or whatever) the main menu ?
> 
> Mike
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