We had the same issue with multiple existing applications. Since the Tag property was never used and is contained on all controls, we created a security object that added at the base form level. All coding for our security system was created in the init of this object and when the init of the form fires, the security object drills down to every control on the form and checks for user rights as to R/W, R-Only, and Visibility. Hence our unique id was a combination of the Form along with the id of the control on that form. The only real work was having to determine what rights each user or user group was intitled to and entering the id in the tag property in each class or form and re-compile. Like I mentioned before, you will need to drill down in containers to control the enabled property of its controls (pageframe's etc.)



>At this point, we are looking for a way to implement 'security' into an existing system. Is there a way to do what you are talking about without having to recreate the fields on all the forms?
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>Thanks,
>Doug