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Features and menus

Introduction

To get access to setting the menu and options of your program, open the properties window in the EXE project (Designers+SDK->Exe Database Project Settings) and click the corresponding tab:

Why do you need this? For example, you want that the user should not have a possibility to randomly create folders and database software records, and should be able to print only specific database software records. To do this, disable the Add and Print menus and create on the toolbar or a form buttons performing analogous actions, but at that fully controlled by your scripts and conditions; or visible only to specific groups of users.

At disabling all menus, the interface of your program can look very compact:

All options are divided into 7 sections:

General

Allow Network - at disabling, end users will not be able to access a possibility to work with one and the same database by the network. At that items Open Networked Database and Allow Network Connections (Share) will disappear from the main menu.
Compile Help - here you can specify a file that will be opened in the program at pressing the F1 key. This should not be obligatory a standard help file of the CHM type; it can be an MS Word document or a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file.

Menus

In this section you can disable any of the program main menus (Add, Folder, Record, View, Queries):

Records/Folders

On this tabs you can prohibit performing separate standard operations with database software records and folders in the database (free moving, duplicating, deleting, creating links/attachments and so on).

"File" menu

In this section you can disable items of the File menu:

"On Load" Script

In this section you can specify a script that will be executed right after loading of the database. This way is obsolete and it is better to create a Timer, with the period equal to "On Database Startup".