One of the few areas of lack of flexibility in the current version(s) of OpenInsight is in the treatment of Menus on MDI frames (and when it comes to it on any Window).  Frequently the developer needs to customise the menu options that are available to a user based upon their security level and whilst simple modifications may be made using Set_Property ENABLE and VISIBLE this requires that place holders be in place for all potential menu choices which may not always be practical.

S/Menu Security (S/MS) provides a way around this.   It allows you to decide upon window creation WHICH window to "copy" the menu from at creation time. Thus you could create a dummy window per "Security Group" with its own menu structure and assign a menu based upon the user’s personal profile at runtime.  In addition you can individually customise said menu by deciding on a menu option by menu option basis whether that option ought to be included for the current user.  All of this is done automatically for you simply by making one call from your window create event.

All of this functionality is provided by a single subroutine called ZZ_Menu_Security.

S/MS Reference Manual

Click here to view (or right mouse click and choose 'Save As' to save the .PDF) the S/MS reference manual for more information about the functionality contained within this products and the benefits that it extends to you as an OpenInsight developer.