Word document administrator function

[Digital Services]

Hi,

I've got a Word document with different areas which can be 'signed'.
The 'signing' is done by clicking a button on the document which then shows
a form asking for the user's Windows NT log-in ID and password. Once
authenticated, some text is inserted and the button disabled.

Each area to be 'signed' is restricted to certain User IDs, which are
hardcoded within the VB code. This brings the problem of maintenance of the
document/code. What if a someone needs to sign an area and they are not in
the list for that area? At the moment I have to modify the VB code
containing the User IDs.

I would like to set up some sort of administrator facility so that it would
be easy to modify the User IDs, which should ideally be held in a separate
file.

Any ideas how to do this?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Digital,

If this should be secure, then I'd use a database with some sort of protection
(Access, SQL-Server, FoxPro...) and ADO to link up to it during code
execution.

I've got a Word document with different areas which can be 'signed'.
The 'signing' is done by clicking a button on the document which then shows
a form asking for the user's Windows NT log-in ID and password. Once
authenticated, some text is inserted and the button disabled.

Each area to be 'signed' is restricted to certain User IDs, which are
hardcoded within the VB code. This brings the problem of maintenance of the
document/code. What if a someone needs to sign an area and they are not in
the list for that area? At the moment I have to modify the VB code
containing the User IDs.

I would like to set up some sort of administrator facility so that it would
be easy to modify the User IDs, which should ideally be held in a separate
file.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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