Jim,
This certainly seems to be what I'm looking for at the moment. Providing the
user does not manually close the DOS box, we should be all right. User
training will deal with that. At the moment we are not looking to stretch
the envelope.
Larry, re: your suggestion
---->Under some circumstances I believe the ZIP command will function the
way you
---->want. I believe you have to ZIP directly to the program you want,
rather
---->than using a batch file. Give it a try and see if it does what you
want
Jim's suggestion seems to meet exactly the requirements
Many many thanks, both
Steven
> ----------
> From: Jim Limburg[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 03 October 2001 16:10
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Controlling Internet access through Rbase
>
> Steve
>
> I am using a command like:
> SET VAR vg_cmd TEXT = ('ZIP START /MAX /WAIT ' & +
> '"' + .vg_cr6_exe + '"' & '"' + .vg_copiedcr6 + '"')
> &vg_cmd
>
> This works on a Win98 machine for RBase6.1a where I have
> copied START.EXE to a directory that is in the users path
> statement. If you are wanting to do this for other OS's
> then I can't give you a direct reference as of yet. I do
> know for sure that the location/path of the START.EXE has
> to be in the users path statement though.
>
> I'm not completely sure the WAIT would stop the user from
> killing RBase, but you could test it. The .vg_cr6_exe is
> the full path to the executable I am running which in the
> case is Crystal Reports version 6 and the vg_copiedcr6 is
> the full path to the reports name fed in as a parameter to
> the exe...
>
> Hope this helps
> Jim Limburg
>
> Steven Hoggan wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am hoping that I can control access to IE using RBW 6.5++
> >
> > I know there are products that allow Internet Usage to be monitored
> (Proxy
> > Server, etc), but my need is more simplistic than that.
> >
> > I simply want to have the user log in and enter a/the relevant password.
> On
> > validation the date/time will be recorded, they will be prompted for a
> > company reference against which their Internet access will be recorded
> and
> > then IE will be launched. On exiting IE, I want the date/time to be
> > recorded again. At this early stage itt's really all very simplistic, I
> > hope, and is intended to allow us to make a first stab at accurately
> tieing
> > Internet usage to the company job-costing process.
> >
> > My problem stems from the fact that once I have launched IE, I can
> > independantly close Rbase and therefore my means of recording the user
> > 'logging off' from IE has disappeared.
> >
> > I hope I've given enough of an outline above for my needs to be clear
> > enough.
> >
> > Has anyone else done something similar? It may be that RBase is not the
> > best vehicle for this, so I'm open to suggestions, but at the moment
> don't
> > have a great deal of time to invest in learning VB or whatever (I
> > suspect/expect this would be extremely straightforward in VB).
> >
> > Anyway, any and all replies greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Steven
> >
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