Koen, This problem also exists in v15 (and v13). I was using groups and BLOB TO USERS and although groups would be restored, any changes to groups would not. So perhaps a bug in USERS TO BLOB?
> On Jan 14, 2019, at 4:01 AM, Koen Van Hooreweghe via 4D_Tech > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Chuck, > > IMHO this is not correct. > > I recently struggled a lot with 4D View (Pro) licenses. A customer has 40+ > users on 4D Server (v16), but only a few of them need 4D View. So they bought > a 5 user license. These are my findings : > > - if there are no user groups, the licenses are assigned upon login (until > the number of licenses is exceeded) and freed when the user logs out. > Actually using the plugin code is not required. > > - if there are user groups, it depends... > -- a user who is not in a group will get a license on login > -- if the plugin access is not limited to a group (plugin checkbox not > checked in any group), all users will get a license (if available) > -- if plugin access is limited to a group (plugin access can be limited to > only one group!), only users belonging to that group will get a license when > logging in (which I needed) > > Caveats: > - USERS TO BLOB will only store the goups created by Administrator (standard > behaviour). Eg when you want to restore the settings when updating your db at > a customers site. > - BLOB TO USERS does not restore the group plugin access (at least not in > v16.3, haven't tested v17 yet). Bug? I don't know (yet). Maybe USERS TO BLOB > does not store these settings correctly? > > HTH > Koen > >> Op 14 jan. 2019, om 02:28 heeft cjmiller--- via 4D_Tech >> <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven: >> >> You. An create a group called 4d write group. It iS the first people who use >> 4d write code not just logging in Later, Guy -- Guy Algot, Solutions Specialist Edmonton, Alberta (780) 974-8538 hardware, installation, training, support, programming, internet specializing in 4th Dimension =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Microsoft is a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately, they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming." -- Simon Slavin ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
