Sep 14 2010
What Happened to Security Access Levels?
In the “good old days” we used to have a somewhat primitive form of object-level security. In the universe a designer could pick from one of five security access levels for each individual object. The settings were public, controlled, restricted, confidential, and private. The text was just a placeholder; behind the scenes the values were stored in the OBJ_M_ACTOR table as as value from zero (0) to four (4). As long as a user had a security level that was greater than or equal to an object security level, that user could see that object.
Last week I was asked to discuss security objects on a universe, and of course I thought about this. However, it seems that there is no matching setting in the CMC anymore. In my experience, nobody used this feature very much (it’s not very flexible and it takes a long time to set up) but it seems weird that it’s just gone from CMC.
Is anyone using this feature? If so, how to you configure the user side of the system?
