>>>>yes, I know, thanks. But not only i can't see the value: i can't write in the field in a browse window. Why?
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>>>My best guess is that it expects you to put in asterisks when you want to add or edit records. Perhaps a undocumented feature?
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>>But however, if you issue ? users.userid works fine and you can know the password etc. Wouldnt it be better use some function to code the values ?
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>Perhaps in the next release. However, if you come up with a solution, please forward it to me.
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>Thanks,

I have downloaded from i don't remember where a library to encrypt text.
If you issue

myvar = encrypt("Mis cosas privadas", password)

the value stored in myvar seems like this
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