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echo: mystic
to: g00r00
from: Mike Fenton
date: 2023-01-04 16:21:00
subject: Small bug

 g0> I was able to find the issue with that logging, thank you!  I am
 g0> uploading a new build now which will include the fix.

Sweet! I'll grab it now.

 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.
 g0> 

Makes perfect sense. There was something else related to this kind of change to. A mass way of updating users security levels? Any way of doing that. I'm getting of topic, but curious.

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