OK you HR-1 gurus. I have a question for you. We recently got a Rightdex installed on the EMP table. This is a big problem since we have over 16,500 records in the EMP table. One of the users complained that they were getting a Quickdex/Rightdex error when updating the Perf, Supv, Dept History screen. The shortcut key to this screen is HOMESF3. Coincidentally, the softkey in the dictionary window to add Quickdex/Rightdex is SF3. Can you think of ANY way a user's typing in HOMESF3 could have installed a Quickdex? All of our users, except the developers have a restriction group preventing them from editing the dictionary.

Could it have been an HR Gnome?

Don't see how one is related to the other. Could be a coincidence and the guilty party just doesn't want to fess up. Let me at'em. I have ways of makin'im talk.

Gary Gnu.

I don't know a thing about HR-1, but whenever things like this happen to me:

1. One of the trusted developers/administrators failed to log out of their account while working on one of the user computers. The user who takes over is oblivious to (or perhaps malicious with) his new super powers.

2. One of the users has been assigned super powers so he can clear passwords or set up backups or something and he is not careful enough with the security breach this causes. (Note to developers: You should allow for normal administrative functions without compromising everything)

In other words, the answer is probably more mundane than you think.

By the way, in my shop we decided that the proper plural for Guru should be "Guri" (OK - it was just three of us and it never caught on

Jim

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I don't know a thing about HR-1, but whenever things like this happen to me: 1. One of the trusted developers/administrators failed to log out of their account while working on one of the user computers. The user who takes over is oblivious to (or perhaps malicious with) his new super powers.

I don't think we have this situation here. At least it is rare for a developer and user to use the same workstation unless the developer is troubleshooting, in which case, it's most likely the user's ID being used.

2. One of the users has been assigned super powers so he can clear passwords or set up backups or something and he is not careful enough with the security breach this causes. (Note to developers: You should allow for normal administrative functions without compromising everything)

I don't think this is an issue either, although it's a possibility.

I just ran a test noticed a couple of things:

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[*]Pressing SF3 from the dictionary window results in a warning message unless a field with FMC=0 is loaded. This fact will cut out most accidents.

[*]If the key field is loaded, pressing SF3 installs the quickdex WITHOUT CONFIRMATION.

[*]Actually, there APPEARS to be confirmation, the system asking if the quickdex should be updated now. The opposite, of course is that it will be updated later, not, as the person with fat fingers might suppose, to not update it at all.

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IOW, I suspect a developer with fat fingers.

Any application that needs BBASIC to run ain't a real

application….

Eric

(Emu-lation is the sincerest form of Gnu-isance)

See also Purdy

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