Overwriting existing forms only keeps the access rights of the DEV form and not the PROD Form

asked on January 4, 2023

Hi,

We are currently using Laserfiche Forms 11.

Our scenario involves modifying a specific form on our Development server and then overwriting the same form on multiple Production Servers. The Production servers are located onboard yachts and the form is assigned access rights according to the ranks onboard the yacht, this can vary from yacht to yacht.

When we overwrite the form onboard the list of available access rights to modify is the list assigned to the Development form and not the access rights of the current form onboard. What this means is that we have to write down the list of access rights of the form onboard before it gets overwritten and then add them manually to the form once overwritten.

We currently have over 2 dozen production servers and around 900+ forms across the fleet, we are always looking at ways of cutting our import times when updating the fleet.

Is there anyway we can overwrite a form and it adopt the access rights or even list the access rights of the current form onboard before overwriting?

Kind Regards

Mark

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replied on January 10, 2023

Hi Mark,

Access rights info is saved in the exported process and it is expected to overwrite existing one when upload and overwrite process.

In your case, a workaround could be: on DEV environment, configure access rights with a group/user that does not exist on PROD environment. Then when you import the process on PROD environment, it would prompt you that the user/group does not exist and ask you to fill one as a replacement.

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replied on January 11, 2023

Hi Rui,

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

The work around wouldn't really work for what I need. A single form copied to 18+ vessels may have different number or ranks and different ranks for each vessel. For a specific form across the fleet, one vessel may require Captain, Chief Officer, Second Officer, etc. Another yacht may require Captain, First Officer (yachts variant on Chief officer), Chief engineer, Stewardess, etc. To create teams onboard for each combination of crew access would be unmanagable across the fleet.

Thanks again.

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