Koen, This problem also exists in v15 (and v13). I was using groups and BLOB TO
USERS and although groups would be restored, any changes to groups would not.
So perhaps a bug in USERS TO BLOB?
> On Jan 14, 2019, at 4:01 AM, Koen Van Hooreweghe via 4D_Tech
> <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Chuck,
>
> IMHO this is not correct.
>
> I recently struggled a lot with 4D View (Pro) licenses. A customer has 40+
> users on 4D Server (v16), but only a few of them need 4D View. So they bought
> a 5 user license. These are my findings :
>
> - if there are no user groups, the licenses are assigned upon login (until
> the number of licenses is exceeded) and freed when the user logs out.
> Actually using the plugin code is not required.
>
> - if there are user groups, it depends...
> -- a user who is not in a group will get a license on login
> -- if the plugin access is not limited to a group (plugin checkbox not
> checked in any group), all users will get a license (if available)
> -- if plugin access is limited to a group (plugin access can be limited to
> only one group!), only users belonging to that group will get a license when
> logging in (which I needed)
>
> Caveats:
> - USERS TO BLOB will only store the goups created by Administrator (standard
> behaviour). Eg when you want to restore the settings when updating your db at
> a customers site.
> - BLOB TO USERS does not restore the group plugin access (at least not in
> v16.3, haven't tested v17 yet). Bug? I don't know (yet). Maybe USERS TO BLOB
> does not store these settings correctly?
>
> HTH
> Koen
>
>> Op 14 jan. 2019, om 02:28 heeft cjmiller--- via 4D_Tech
>> <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> het volgende geschreven:
>>
>> You. An create a group called 4d write group. It iS the first people who use
>> 4d write code not just logging in
Later,
Guy
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