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|    Paul Hayton to All    |
|    Re: Small bug    |
|    05 Jan 23 09:52:53    |
      From: nospam.Paul.Hayton@f100.n770.z3.fidonet.org              On 04 Jan 2023 at 03:03p, g00r00 pondered and said...               g0> As far as it not updating the user field when you upgrade the user        g0> security level, thats expected behavior. Older versions would copy the        g0> start menu from the security into the user record, but now it just pulls        g0> the menu name directly from the security record.        g0>        g0> The reason for the change is because if you wanted to change the start        g0> menu for a security level in the past you'd have to then go into each        g0> user's record and update their start menu field. Now you can blank out        g0> all of the user's start menu fields and let it pull the menu from the        g0> system default or their security profile. You'd only set the start menu        g0> directly on the user's record if you really wanted them to have their        g0> own custom start menu.        g0>        g0> Hope I was able to explain that in a way that made sense lol.              I think I'll put up something in the FAQ about this as it seems to be something       that folks may need some further education / awareness on.              Your explanation makes sense to me but for those of us using Mystic for a while       I can see how what was a previously filled field now blank may be concerning.              What I think this will do is make folks more aware of the setup / settings in       the defined security areas.              Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going'       avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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