Yes I know they were changed I am walking my way though the changes now as I am working on preparing to move to the new 4D V18 project mode. In a way I like the movement of the User sand groups to the .json file. But breaking the conversion of users and groups for a large corporation and requiring the permissions be regenerated manually may be a major issue for a large organization.
> On Apr 30, 2020, at 4:43 PM, Guy Algot <g...@macjedi.ca> wrote: > > Eric, U&G were changed with v18 project mode. Check out the blog, I believe > there was a posting there about it. > >> On Apr 30, 2020, at 2:29 PM, Eric Naujock via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com >> <mailto:4d_tech@lists.4d.com>> wrote: >> >> I have found that if you take a 4D v17r5 program and convert it to v18. Then >> change the database to a project database it will lose the memberships in >> the users and groups. When exported you will see all your groups and users. >> But the memberships between the two will disappear. With the exception being >> “Designer” and “Administrator”. >> >> Even worse. If you took a User to blob file saved in 4D v17r5 and import it >> into v18 it will corrupt the minimal users and groups file created when the >> database was converted. Effectively all the groups will disappear and >> corrupt groups groups will come into existance. >> >> A curiosity is that the designer and administrator will keep their >> memberships, but all the other users will lose the relationships. I have >> noticed the the new directory.json no longer has user numbers. I suspect >> this may be part of the problem. This is certainly causing issues with my >> linking users to their [Employee] table records. The user number used to be >> a constant and I would use it to tie a user to an employee record with a >> simple Longint. >> >> Can anybody verify this is true or not. Or is there something really simple >> that I am missing. The good thing is that my users and groups are pretty >> small so I can manually recreate the directory.json file. Then make a backup >> of the file in my v18 project. >> >> I am using the method of saving the directory.json file in the dat folder to >> keep my users and groups constant between versions of the database. >> >> I remember there was a discussion about users and groups in the past and >> issues with import-export of the data to a blob. >> ********************************************************************** >> 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) >> Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html >> <http://lists.4d.com/archives.html> >> Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech >> <https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech> >> Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com >> <mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com> >> ********************************************************************** > > > Later, > Guy > > -- > Guy Algot, Solutions Specialist > Edmonton, Alberta > (780) 974-8538 > > hardware, installation, training, support, programming, internet > specializing in 4th Dimension > =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > "Microsoft is a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately, > they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming." > -- Simon Slavin > > > ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
