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[#1]

Hi All,

I am trying to write a rule for restricting save rights to a .ipt or .iam file.  I am just starting out with ilogic and have very basic coding experience.

What I would like is for the rule to read the windows login username and depending on the result (User A) displays a radio message box asking if if the file should be restricted.

If the file is to be restricted, then the rule should allow only User A to save the file.  Hopefully that makes sense.

I have posted the code I have so far.  I don't know how to get the windows username so have substituted this with username for the moment.

If Username = "User A" Then

RestrictAccess = InputRadioBox("Should this file be restricted?", "Yes", "No", RestrictAccess, Title := "Restrict Access")

End If

If  RestrictAccess = True  And Username = "User A" Then

ThisDoc.Save

Else

ThisDoc.Document.SaveAs


End If

[#2]

I don't think this is going to work.

[#3]

I know my current code doesn't work.  I just posted it to give an idea of what I'm looking to achieve.

[#4]

That's obvious, I mean I don't think iLogic will work for this at all.

[#5]

Oh ok  

Do you mean that It wouldn't be posible to get the windows username from ilogic or something else?

If it's not possibile to get the windows username, would it be possible to get the username from the applications options?

thanks for any help.

[#6]

You can get the WIndows username (I don't have it at my finger tips, but I'm sue you could find a snippet if you searched the Inventor customization forum).

I just don't think iLogic will work very well for controlling file editing permissions. I don't know how much anti-tamper you need but all it would take is a right click suppress or delete on your rule to "unlock" the file. More importantly, I'm not sure how you could capture the save command to keep it from executing. Have you done any experimenting to see if it's possible?

[#7]

Suppressing the rule won't be an issue as the user we're trying to restrict, doesn't have a lot of experience using inventor, and has never even heard of ilogic.

I haven't experimented with the save command yet.  My thoughts on it would be to trigger the rule before save then write a rule to abort the save command and trigger the saveas command instead.

I don't know how possible this would be though.

[#8]

Have you considered using read only files instead?

You could write an API routine (I don't know if it would work in iLogic) that would mark the file read only or not based on the user name...

Never underestimate the power of ignorance.

[#9]

Hi  gcooper79,

I think mrattray is probably right in thinking that iLogic might not be the best tool for this, but it doesn't hurt to try I suppose. Here are some snippets I had on hand for setting and clearing the read only flags. These snippets do it for the entire folder the file resides in, but you can change it to target only the file as needed.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

'clear the read only flag on all of the files found
'in the same folder as this file

'get the file path
Dim strPath As String = ThisDoc.Path & “\”

 ‘clear read only flag
SetAttr(strPath, vbNormal + vbArchive)

Dim strFile As String = Dir(strPath)
Do Until strFile = ""
 ‘clear read only flag
SetAttr(strPath & "\" & strFile, vbNormal + vbArchive)
strFile = Dir()
Loop

'set the read only flag on all of the files found 
'in the same folder as this file

'get the file path
Dim strPath As String = ThisDoc.Path & “\”

 ‘clear read only flag
SetAttr(strPath, vbNormal + vbArchive)

Dim strFile As String = Dir(strPath)
Do Until strFile = ""
 ‘set read only flag
SetAttr(strPath & "\" & strFile, vbReadOnly + vbArchive)
strFile = Dir()
Loop

[#10]

Maybe it's easier to use a datamangement tool for this like Vault.

Theo