Eric, U&G were changed with v18 project mode. Check out the blog, I believe there was a posting there about it.
> On Apr 30, 2020, at 2:29 PM, Eric Naujock via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > I have found that if you take a 4D v17r5 program and convert it to v18. Then > change the database to a project database it will lose the memberships in the > users and groups. When exported you will see all your groups and users. But > the memberships between the two will disappear. With the exception being > “Designer” and “Administrator”. > > Even worse. If you took a User to blob file saved in 4D v17r5 and import it > into v18 it will corrupt the minimal users and groups file created when the > database was converted. Effectively all the groups will disappear and corrupt > groups groups will come into existance. > > A curiosity is that the designer and administrator will keep their > memberships, but all the other users will lose the relationships. I have > noticed the the new directory.json no longer has user numbers. I suspect this > may be part of the problem. This is certainly causing issues with my linking > users to their [Employee] table records. The user number used to be a > constant and I would use it to tie a user to an employee record with a simple > Longint. > > Can anybody verify this is true or not. Or is there something really simple > that I am missing. The good thing is that my users and groups are pretty > small so I can manually recreate the directory.json file. Then make a backup > of the file in my v18 project. > > I am using the method of saving the directory.json file in the dat folder to > keep my users and groups constant between versions of the database. > > I remember there was a discussion about users and groups in the past and > issues with import-export of the data to a blob. > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > ********************************************************************** 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:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
