Hi,

Does anyone know of an easy way to block the export function for a user/group?
We want to protect the data in the case of an employee exporting all customer records and taking it offsite with them or on to another job.

IS there a way to customize security permissions/rights for groups?

Thanks

AJ

AirJordan,

There are always physical barriers that can make it much more difficult for someone to steal data - disable floppy drives, usb ports, put printers in secured areas.  Of course, they can just email the data file.  So then what?  Deny them email?  Not really workable.

But, Hammer, why can't he create custom menus and then just disable the command menus from a group?  That way the user only sees the forms and the buttons (and only on the form) that Air Jordan wants him to see, which would not include export or mass update.  I've done that with my Client Order piece that lets clients log on to my server to place orders.  I don't believe they can defeat the screens I allow them, and do anything I don't want them to do.

Ultimately, though, Hammer is right.  Any business, and all other organizations, live and die upon the integrity of its members.  If you are in an industry that enables/seems to encourage sales people to easily be a Pied Piper and have clients follow them to another business, then you either live with it, hoping the growth generated from employees offsets the occasional creep who memorizes your rolodex, schmoozes your clients and then walks with some of them, or settle on the only failsafe method, which is to have only family members (or just you, to be completely protected) be the customer's point of contact with the company (like a dentist).  Cuts down on growth, but cuts down on high blood pressure, too!

"He can, but even then there are ways around it, although it makes them harder to find." ...

Fortunately there's nobody at my place (including me!) smart enough to figure out those end runs .... I guess that makes me lucky?

Of course, a lawyer would say that diligent, demonstrable attempts to safeguard data would help him build a compelling legal argument that the data-thief knew full well that what he/she was doing was wrong and that the data-theft was premeditated by definition (hard to claim that you thought the jewelry was being given away if it's locked away in a safe, versus sitting in a chair on the porch).

In any case, I understand your point.  Thanks!