Field Encryption and VStudio

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 14/2/07 11:17 AM, "Bart Pietercil" <bart.pietercil at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Bart,

> Hi List,
> 
> Am I right that I cannot encrypt (or decrypt) a field in a table with
> VStudio?

You can. Check contextual menu clicking on a field in 4th column

It have Encrypt option.
 
> If I was to do it with for instance RealBasic and later on I want to
> use Vstudio on this table, what will happen?

You should see a lock on field icon
On click to it Vstudio should ask password.
 

> Am I right in understanding that the encryptField method I only need
> to do this once ?

yes

> It will encrypt the column ?

yes
 
> So I cannot encrypt a field on a record by record basis, using a key
> that is different for each record?

NO.

 
> More questions to come, but let's first see the response on this :-)

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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