Funds Centers Security

Hi,
we are trying to manage security on funds centers 101515,102515,103515,104515, etc.
If I use 10515 in the funds centers field the system is reading 10 only which is not what we want.
Is there another way to isolate everything starting with 10 and endind with 515?
Thank you

That was a rather weak answer from me as well to take a potluck shot at it.
Other possibilities to use are + or % or # depending of the data type of te field, but using wildcards (and ranges) is usually a bit ugly anyway. As your fund center naming convention seems to have at least 2 ranges in it (which you could use when searching for example...), you will probably have to live with the fact that you will need to maintain the 10 values each time.
Other options are:
- To use a different field which can be related to whatever the 1st 3 digits are, and check that there are no DUMMY field values checked in important places.
- To reconsider the naming convention.
- To use derived roles and make the field an organizational level relevant field.
I know of one TM implementation where option 3 was chosen, and they were mostly happy. But the bugger is that it does make you inflexible when someone comes with a special request, or replicates problems when some admin makes a human mistake in the parent role (like popping a * into some object they haven't heard of before...).
Keep it open for a while. Perhaps someone else knows about other options or clever tricks?
Cheers,
Julius
Edited by: Julius Bussche on Feb 4, 2009 8:40 PM

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