Security Without Section Application

[mohan2391]

Hi guys,

What will happen if  i use Section Access; but comment the Section Application; line ?

Is Section Application; line must be there ?

Thanks in advance

[Anonymous]

It will not work, section application needs to be there in order for it to be applied,

Be sure to make a backup copy of your QVW before playing around with any section access related changes.

[vijetas42]

Yes, Section Application line should be there. If you are adding section access then there should be some thing on which you are going to apply that security.

[Peter_Cammaert]

It's a bit more nuanced than that.

The Section Application; statement doesn't have to be present if...

• you're not using the Section Access; statement. Section Application; is the default at the start of your script, even in the hidden script.
• the Section Access; statement appears near to the end of your script, and there are are no more regular statements after Section Access; In that case all statements appearing before the Seciton Access; statement are parked in an "implicit" Section Application; area because that's the default area at the start of your Load scirpt.

Section Application - being the default at script start - is usually omitted altogether from scripts without security.

Scripts that have only Section Access; won't do many useful things (if any at all) because your document will end up without a data model... But I can imagine that a document with just a series of buttons that pass control to other documents (document chaning) won't need a data model and will do just fine with only a Section Access; statement