Your First Application - Part 2

Creating Menu Bar and Security Access

In Part 1, we created a basic system with user authentication. Now we'll add a menu bar and configure security access to make the application functional for users.

Step 1: Create the Default Menu

Back in the Studio, we need to create a menu structure for our application:

1. Navigate to User Interface → Menus
2. Click "Create a new Menu Item"
3. This will be the parent menu holding all functionalities accessible by users
4. Set the Menu name: Default menu
5. Save your changes

Step 2: Configure System Default Menu

1. Go back to the "System Information" page
2. In the "Default menu" setting, select "Default menu" from the dropdown
3. If the menu doesn't appear in the list, click "Save all" first to make it available

Step 3: Create Security Menu Item

Now we'll create a "Security" menu entry that reuses the menu definition from the User Management solution:

1. Navigate back to User Interface → Menus
2. Click "New Menu item"
3. Configure the menu item:
   • Menu name: Security
   • Call another menu: UM.Security
     This tells the menu to replicate the User Management "Security" menu functionalities
   • Id: 1
     Used to associate menu items with access rights (more details on this below...)
   • Depth: 1
     Creates the correct hierarchy level

Security menu item configuration showing the UM.Security reference and access settings

4. Save your changes

Step 4: Deploy and Test the Menu

1. Go back to the System Information page
2. Click "Deploy System"
3. Wait for deployment completion
4. Login to the runtime application

Step 5: Configure System Properties for Access Rights

When you try to use the Groups Maintenance menu, you'll see this warning:

This happens because the User Management solution provides flexibility to create custom access rights. We need to define these:

1. In the Studio, from the System Information page, click "Edit System Properties"
2. Create a new property:
   • Property name: MENU_OPTIONS
   • Value: Security,Customer read,Customer write
3. Save the property

Step 6: Deploy and Configure Groups

1. Save and deploy the solution again
2. Login to the runtime solution
3. Go to Security → Groups Maintenance
4. Click "Create a Group" and configure:
   • Group Name: Admin
   • Allowed Menus: Select all 3 options
   • Click "Save"

Step 7: Assign Users to Groups

1. Go to Security → Users Maintenance
2. You'll see the existing default root user
3. Select the root user and associate it with the "Admin" group
4. This gives the root user access to all solution functionalities

Testing and Experimentation

Feel free to experiment with the security system:

• Create additional groups with different access rights for testing
• Create new users with different group assignments
• Test login with different users to see how access rights work

What's Next?

This completes Part 2 of the tutorial. Continue with:

• Part 3: Create a simple data model to store Customers and Projects information
• Part 4: Create basic flows and UI for the customer database functionalities

Key Concepts Learned

• Menu Structure: Creating hierarchical menu systems
• Menu Reuse: Leveraging existing menus from included systems
• System Properties: Configuring application-wide settings
• Access Rights: Group-based security model
• User Management: Creating and managing users and groups