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I'm a newbie, and just set up dataface for the first time ~ excellent product! I can see it saves ne a lot of work setting up a 'front-end' for users, however I've read the section on getting started and particulalry the section on actions.ini

My question is ~ how do I remove the 'delete' onption in the standard action script? In particular want to stop a user from droppping the whole recordset or deleting a found set.

Thanks
Graeme Hird

The best way to do this is with permissions.

There are a couple of ways to do this. One way would be to assign the EDIT role to your users.

Steps;

1. Add an application delegate class by creating a 'conf' directory in your application's directory, and adding a file named 'ApplicationDelegate.php' to this folder with the following contents:

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class conf_ApplicationDelegate {

    function getPermissions(&$record){
        return Dataface_PermissionsTool::getRolePermissions('EDIT');
    }
}

?>


The EDIT role can do everything except delete. (see http://dataface.weblite.ca/getRolePermissions for information about the getRolePermissions method).

You can take a look at the permissions.ini file to see what other roles there are. You can also create a permissions.ini file in your application's directory to create your own roles.

Hope this helps.

-Steve

Thank you, I hadn't seen the permisions.ini file ~ I've initially used the conf directory option, it works perfectly and now I understand the permissions file I can use either to suit my needs.

Best regards
Graeme

Note that if you want to use the permissions.ini file to define roles, don't modify the one in the dataface directory. If you create a permissions.ini file in your application folder, its permissions will be merged with those in the dataface directory to override the permissions.

Best regards

Steve