I used to keep ALL dictionaries in a "Dictionary Dict" account. In the Development environment, all developers had all access levels. In the LIVE environment, only 3-4 "trustees" had unix WRITE permissions to this account. Everyone else (Users & Developers) had Read & Execute only.
I maintained the dictionaries with a custom built VB/Objects front-end so that all fields & definitions were available to developers - the only button that did not work was "SAVE CHANGES" (except for The Few, of course). The "Create File" option, automatically placed the DICT file in the Dictionary Account - so the DBA never had to fiddle around with pointers. One advantage of this approach is consistency, so that we never had to deal with the same field on say 3 files with 3 different names (eg. Product.Id, Prod.Code, Stock.No) - because Tom, Dick and Harry never talked. We picked a name and added a textual definition only ONCE, and the next time it was used in a different file, much of the info was already there. Ray ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
