Editing or Deleting a Secured Action

If you rename or delete a secured action, the secured action is de-coupled from all elements assigned to the element in the Application Architect. Although the relationship no longer exists, the element is still secured until you manually remove the secured action from the Applied Security property of the control in the Application Architect.

For example, you created a secured action named Print/Reports and added that action to the Print button on the Reports view. If you delete the Print/Reports secured action, the Print button control still displays Print/Reports in the Applied Security property in the Application Architect although the action does not exist. When a user accesses the Reports view, the user cannot access the Print button because this feature is not assigned to a role that contains the Print/Reports secured action. The admin login can access all user interface elements, regardless of secured actions.

If you want to remove security from the element, delete the secured action and manually remove the action from the Applied Security property of the control in the Application Architect.

To edit a secured action:

1. Open the Secured Action Detail view for the action you want to edit.
2. Use the Roles tab to add or remove the secured action from a role.
3. Click (Save).

To delete a secured action:

1. Open the Secured Action Detail view for the action you want to delete.
2. Click ((Delete).
3. Click OK to confirm.

To recover a secured action:

If you accidentally delete (or rename) a secured action, you can create a new secured action with the same name which re-links the action to any controls that use the action in the Application Architect. If you manually removed the action from the Applied Security property on the control in the Application Architect, the action does not re-link to the control. The new secured action name must exactly match the previous secured action name.