> Example

The Datastream 7i user "John" is associated with Datastream 7i user group 1 and Datastream 7i user group 2. User group 1 is associated with Organization 1 and User group 2 is associated with Organization 2. User group 1 has full access rights to the Equipment form (OMOBJC); User group 2 has query-only rights to the Equipment form. When Datastream 7i user "John" opens the Equipment form and queries for an equipment record, Datastream 7i displays only records having organizations to which John has access, and each record retains the permissions of the organization associated with the equipment. Therefore, if the organization of the equipment is Organization 1, John will have full access rights to the record. However, if the organization is Organization 2, John can only view the record.

   You cannot establish record-level security for the equipment unless the MULTIORG installation parameter is set to YES.

Follow these steps to activate multi-organization security.

  1. Open the Multi-organization security form (BNMOST).

  2. Select the entity for which to activate multi-organization security.

  3. Active—Select to activate the entity. After activating an entity for MOS, it cannot be deactivated.

  4. Choose File | Save from the menu bar. Datastream 7i saves the information to the database.

   If you are also running Datastream 7i Extended, you must restart it after you activate multi-organization security.