Professor Wieder!

Haven't talked to you in a while...I hope you and the lovely Vanessa are doing well!

>If anyone has better ideas, let's hear them!>

Here's an *alternate* solution.

1. Create a subclass of CUserMgr
2. Add "v_UserGroups" to your app-specific copy of UserLoginEnvironment
3. Add a new "IsUserInGroup()" method to your new User Mgr class that accepts a user primary key and a group primary key. Add code to requery the view, and check the resulting cursor for the specified group...return a logical value indicating if the specified user is in the group.
4. Change classes.dbf so the Abstract Factory loads up your User Mgr rather than CUserMgr.

Hooking into the User Manager is a nice way to go since it's always available.

Regards,