We use the systemmess functionality (as described in many threads on BB) to display a message to the users on login. The systemmess file gets regenerated each night with a summary of the previous day's business performance.

However, we now have a situation when the information displayed is totally inappropriate for certain users. Ideally we would like to display a different message but I don't believe that would be possible so instead I'd simply like to surppress the message for specified users.

Any clues?

Thanks,

Dave

However, we now have a situation when the information displayed is totally inappropriate for certain users. Ideally we would like to display a different message but I don't believe that would be possible so instead I'd simply like to surppress the message for specified users.

Any clues?


Hi,
You can search on Baanboard for utility "bshcmd" which is used to send messages to individuals / groups...

Thanks for the reply.

We sometimes use bshcmd for sending broadcast messages, but systemmess is what we are using to display the login message.

Would there be a way to use bshcmd to send a user a message as they logged in? But only if they were in a specific group?

For info our user community use a combination of Worktop and BW.

Dave

DO you use indeed Baan on a windows server?

On *nix this wouldn't be a big issue using a bshell wrapper.
I haven't tried it myself but perhaps it's possible by using a custom program and load this with bms_mask automaticly as the user starts baan?

Someone ever tried to do this?

Regards,
Han

Yes we're on a Windows Server.

On *nix this wouldn't be a big issue using a bshell wrapper.
I haven't tried it myself but perhaps it's possible by using a custom program and load this with bms_mask automaticly as the user starts baan?

Havent tried this, as we are on Unix. But, using batch programming could this be possible? One can put a batch program in place of "bshell6.1" executable in file $BSE\lib\ipc_info in front of "bshell" entry. Inside the batch program, "bshell" can be called and even "bshcmd" can be called.