Changes to MSBASE V7 Schema
Changes on December 12, 1995
- A set of cre-date/time/user and upd-date/time/user fields were
added to every MSBASE table (except the audit table)
- The format for device.dev-name was changed to match that of
printer.ptr-model (x(12))
- device.dev-is-binary was added to mark devices that are binary
capable (pass 8bit data without distortion)
- group-desc.new-perms-enabled is used to control how default permission
should be granted for new objects into group
- A new object based index was added to the group-perm table
- A new object based index was added to the menu-item table
- printer.ptr-does-binary was added to indicate if the printer device
support binary printing or not
- printer.ptr-binary-init was added to contain the sequence for setting
a printer to binary mode (if using a binary print device and the
printer support binary mode)
- printer.ptr/src-binary-reset was added to contain the sequences for
resetting a print from binary mode back to 'normal' mode
- Several new 'color' fields were added the user-color table
- n/c-header added for distictive header coloring
- n/c-hilite2 added for secondary highlighting when >1 lister is visible
- n/c-misc[1-5] was added for additional colors in the future. This is
*NOT* an array field, there are 5 sets of seperate fields
Changes on August 21, 1995
- The printer-line table was added to
allow definition of line-drawing characters for various printer
models. This file has a one for one corrospondance with the
printer table and they should be treated
as a matched pair.
Changes on August 15, 1995
- group-perm.perm-startdate
was added to provide a complimentary mechanism to
group-perm.perm-expirdate
to be used for enabling permissions on a given date.
- menu.menu-custom
was added to be able to flag site-specific menu definitions
- menu-item.item-custom
was added to be able to flag a site-specific menu item definition
- object.obj-custom
was added to be able to flag a site-specific object definition
- program.prog-sub was added to allow
sub-programs (i.e. programs that will never be in a menu) to be flagged.
- A user-by-event index was added to the
audit table to facilitate higher speed user
status lookups.
- Several other indices in the audit table
were renamed.
Last updated on December 12, 1995