Click on the menu ‘User Group’ And Then Choose ‘Add’

Enter the name of the user group. Choose the privileges the user group should have. And click on ‘Add Group’ to add this as a group. Any problem encountered while performing this operation is reported back to the user.

Click On the main menu ‘User Group’ and the sub-menu ‘Modify’.

Choose the user group. Modify the privileges the user group should have. And click on ‘Modify User Group’ to modify this as a group. Any problem encountered while performing this operation is reported back to the user.

Click on the main menu ‘User Group’ And the sub menu ‘Delete’.



Choose the user group. And click on ‘Delete User Group’ to delete this group. Any problem encountered while performing this operation is reported back to the user.

User – tables

Click on the main menu ‘User Tables’.

Tables defined, as ‘user-tables’ are the only tables that can be accessed by the user to enter data into it.

Choose all those tables that are supposed to take in data from geds and leave the rest unchecked, And click on ‘set user tables’ to set the selected set of tables as ‘user tables’.

In case you would like to add a new user table, the user would need to check the table and click on ‘set user tables ‘.

This is set the configuration data for the various tables of the different tables.

Choose the table to which the user would want to configure the field settings .

Choose the field.

Is it mandatory for the field to have value in it , if yes choose ‘yes’ else choose ‘no’.

Does the field need to hold ids then choose ‘auto’, if it needs to hold alphanumeric data then choose ‘text’ else choose ‘numerals’.

Can the field allow duplicate values, if yes choose ‘yes’ else choose ‘no’.

Does the field need to be displayed by the ‘geds’ application. If it has to display it choose ‘yes’ else choose ‘no’.

If the purpose of the field is to generate ids and hold them choose ‘identification’, and in case it is to hold data choose the option ‘data’ or if the field is to hold a file name choose ‘file’.

Set the default value .

The ‘build order’ is the order in which the fields are displayed by the ‘geds’.

Set the ‘field length’ beyond which length data is not accepted.

‘display caption’ is the caption that would be displayed by the user.

And finally the control that would displayed by the ‘geds’ for the corresponding field.

This screen would help you build the relation between the various tables.




From the list of parent tables and the child tables choose the parent & the child table.

The first step is to choose the field, in the parent as well as child table, that would be used as the display field.





The second step is to choose the field, in the parent as well as child table, that would be used as the ‘id’ field.

At this a point a query on whether the relationship stored in the child table or in a different table.

In case whether the data is held in a field in the child table, then say ‘yes’ to the query shot and choose the field that would hold the data , and click ‘ok’ again.

In case the relationship is held in a different table say ‘no’ to the query and from the list of tables choose the table that would hold the relationship. From that table choose the parent and the child field.

Click in affirmation to query on whether the relationship has to be built. The relationship is built.

From the list of user groups choose a group .Now choose a table and all those fields that the user group can have access to and click on ‘set entries’.

To remove access privileges for a user group from table, choose a table, and choose the user group, all fields to which the user has privilege to will get highlighted. Deselect those fields that the user group should not have access to and click on ‘set entries’.