Data reduction heirarchy type

[#1]

i'm trying to put a heirarchial type security system into the section application but cant get my head round it.

what i want is 3 tier system where the users have access to the bottom level, e.g. data reduced specific to their team. then the next stage for department heads where data is reduced to that department, and then the top level(other than admin etc) has access to all departments.

so i might have.

account	team	department	company
ACCTA	TEAMA	DEPT1	COMP
ACCTB	TEAMB	DEPT2	COMP
ACCTC	TEAMC	DEPT1	COMP
ACCTD	TEAMD	DEPT2	COMP

and users

User	CONNECT
rsmith	TEAMA
nstone	TEAMB
pjones	TEAMC
mparker	TEAMD
jyoung	DEPT1
mrogers	DEPT2
dbrent	COMP

i'm just after some clarification to how this is read by the system and how it would be possible.

one idea i did have was to read in the 1st table 3 times, once for each column under the same heading. would that work?
then if when it matches the CONNECT for data reduction it'll pick up all the neccessarry accounts.

i'll give it a try, and let you know how it goes!

[#2 · Accepted solution]

i managed to get it working! yay me!

i've attached an example.

its a world cup thing i had created but now with data reduction dependant on country, group and continent. these fields dont have to be heirarchial but would work just the same if they were.

ok, try logging in as the following users: sblatter, mlippi, fcapello, nmandela, hwebb, mplatini. password for all is 'fifa' as is the pword for hidden script.

heres part of the section access file

Team	TNAME	GROUP	CONT
USA	USA	GRPC	AME
Italy	ITA	GRPF	EUR
England	ENG	GRPC	EUR
Argentina	ARG	GRPB	SAM
Algeria	ALG	GRPC	AFR
Mexico	MEX	GRPA	AME
Serbia	SER	GRPD	EUR
South Africa	SAF	GRPA	AFR

it reads in the table 3 times, once pairing team and TNAME, then team and GROUP then team and CONT to give a long table with team and CONNECT.

then the access file has this.

USERID	PASSWORD	ACCESS	CONNECT
sblatter	fifa	User	ALL
mplatini	fifa	User	EUR
bbradley	fifa	User	USA
mlippi	fifa	User	ITA
nmandela	fifa	User	AFR
fcapello	fifa	User	ENG

strict exclusion is off so sblatter has access to all but this could be replaced with * if strict exclusion is required.

as i mentioned it is not quite heirarchial as i had suggested but any property can be applied to it.

dont reload it as it reads in the access and reduction documents from an excel file.

[#3]

Hello Sanchez10,

I am having the same situation as you.

Please could you copy the script? I am using the demo and I can not acces to your file.

Thanks a lot!!

Alejandro