EPDM 2011 data card controlled tabs - managing access by group name, help!

Gary,

To achieve what you are trying to do is not possible with the controlled by variable, The tabs will be either shown or not shown if you use this.

This is how i would suggest: Usage of the "Gated Approach Workflow"

1) Create a workflow, with the states for different departments.

2) Give checkout rights to the departments at their respective workflow states to add or modify information.

3) for the rest of the users give Read-only permissions.

Hope this helps !

Regards,

Raghav.

What you need are tabs within tabs.

1. So your first tab has each department name, selectable by anyone.
2. Then inside the first department tab, create another tab control and set to Controlled by Variable and choose by "group".
3. Name each tab a group you want to give edit access to. I also make the first tab a space, that way I only have to add groups that will need to edit later. The space seems to default to groups that don't have a tab.
4. Add variables to the "space" group, set all the fields to "read-only".
5. Select all and copy/paste to the other group tabs (the nest tab control, not top level)
6. Remove read-only checkboxes for the appropriate group access per the first level tab control. So if you ahve a department called "Engineering" then select the "Engineering" top tab, then the "Engineering" nested tab and remove the read-only checks.

Maintenance can get quite involved as you have multiple fields to keep track of. Also if you have defaults to set, be sure to make them all the same as you might get some conflicts applying them.