Hide data in a field on a form

[Tammy S.]

I have Privacy Act protected data that I would like to hide from general
users of a database with permissions for specific users. I'd like the data
to appear as a series of asteriks with a "show" botton that pops up a new box
with a warning that data is not to be disclosed. Any suggestions?

 

[KARL DEWEY]

Check out Password as Input Mask.

 

[Tammy S.]

That works, but I need to make it visible for specified users.

 

[chanu]

Hi Tammy
I am also a new user. But i hear that there is one PASSWORDCHAR property
which can be used to mask the characters you type with the character/symbol
you want.
To set the password character use:
textbox.passwordchar := *
To remove this use:
textbox.passwordchar := #0.
try this. if you don't know find it useful any experienced user might give a
correct answer

 

[KARL DEWEY]

I think you would need to setup security groups - I do not know anything there.
Suggest you post question in the Security section of the newsgroup.

 

[Tammy S.]

I'm modleing this off another database that has a feature where you click on
a button covering the field and it will pop up a box with the info and a "Do
Not Disclose" warning. Problem is that the code is imbedded with a whole
bunch of other actions and I cannot figure out exactly what code would apply
to just this button.

 

[KARL DEWEY]

Sorry, cannot help you there.