Field level security for ProjTable

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I'm going over this document:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh272122.aspx

To figure out how to set up field level security on a new custom field on the projTable table. I can create a privilege that can be used to assign to a duty / role to make it editable. The problem is I want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly... I would need to find every other privilege that has prodTable in it and set the field to read only to make this work? I ask because there are a lot. and I"m assuming setting this at the table level is the most secure method.

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André Arnaud de Cal... 304,508 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi Dougq,

Your understanding is correct. However it would also be possible to overwrite the table/field permissions on security role level. This level has priority above the privilege table/field permissions. It would be less work.

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Thanks Andre,

So if right click on the table, go to Add-Ins -> Security tools -> View related security roles option. I filter this table down to roles that have Full access, edit, and create permissions. Is this the best way to get a list of high level roles for this?

How do I effectively override it just to change the field access? If I add the table into a role as EffectiveAccess Read will that make it so the role can only read the entire table despite if I only add the one field to that table permission?

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Chaitanya Golla 17,225 on at

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Hi,

That's true. To check the security objects use the Security tools options on table/prodTable and on menuitem/display/prodtable.

More information is available at the link: msdn.microsoft.com/.../hh745340.aspx

So, get the list of related roles(through above approach) and to get the intended field access please follow below steps

--On the intended role, under the tables node(Path: \Security\Roles\<Role-Name>\Permissions\Tables) add the Prod table with effective access as "Read"

-- Add required field to the ProdTable with effective access(property) as either Read/NoAccess

\Security\Roles\<Role-Name>\Permissions\Tables\ProdTable\RequiredField.

As the security role level takes precedence over table/field permissions(as Andre suggested), its better to assign at this level.

Hope this helps you.

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Chaitanya Golla

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