How Security is Applied in the Browser

Your system administrator can grant or restrict user access to applications, forms, and records in DPS.

To define each user's rights to DPS, the system administrator first creates user roles that reflect your organization's business rules. The system administrator then assigns each user to a role, which determine what actions the user can perform. The user's security role is identified upon logging into the system.

Access to all DPS applications is assigned for each security role on the General tab of Role Security in the desktop application. Using the menu tree on this tab, you can either assign full access rights to all options, or expand the tree and sub-menus to define specific rights to each area of the application.

After determining application access, you can use the Screen Designer feature in the browser application to establish a role's access to the fields, grids, lookups, and report information for the hubs by doing the following:

• Show or hide tabs.
• Show or hide fields or grids. These settings also apply to any related fields or grids in custom searches.
• Lock a field or grid. This allows users to see the field or grid but not edit it.
• Require an entry in certain fields.

See the tab, field, and grid properties options on the Screen Designer form for more information.