Turn Omnis system read only?

[Mohamed Miro]

I normally have the system automatically resort to "Reports Only" mode upon
expiry.... However this of course requires coding and I highly doubt if
there is any other way you can do it.

Coding would be just a line or two.....

Rgrds

Moh
Kenya


On 29 August 2014 14:53, <wizardcompserv at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I think you will have to do this with your own procedure.
>
> In my application I cannot set the database to 'read only' as when
> starting Omnis a message is displayed 'No access to database'.
>
> You would also need to stop them from adding new records and deleting
> existing records.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Matthews <omnis at lineal.co.uk>
> To: OmnisDev List - English <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com>
> Sent: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:10
> Subject: Re: Turn Omnis system read only?
>
>
> I think you have it about right by using that 1 method to perform
> updates.  But
> there us a $pref for cdrom access, not sure if it is only for Studio, and
> not
> really sure what it does, but it sounds like it could work.
>
> Mike
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> On 29 Aug 2014, at 11:00, Geir Fjærli <omnis at sunshinedata.com> wrote:
>
> > This is good old Omnis 7 (classic) on Windows, using native datafiles.
> >
> > A client has a customer that want to stop paying maintenance on their
> app, to
> go to another system. They do however want the old system available for
> reference. But as they are no longer paying, they should be restricted from
> actively using the system.
> >
> > So the question is: Is there anything that can be done (without changing
> code)
> to stop them from updating the data file? I guess anything you set can be
> unset
> if you have admin privileges.
> >
> > Now I may be able to stop them in a centrally called procedure, luckily
> one is
> called for most edits and inserts. Then I need to stop some other
> activities
> too.
> >
> > Anyone done something like this on a native Omnis app?
> >
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