The School Department’s Budgeting system required security; in that management required the ability to limit access to various processes to certain users. This stand-alone program facilitated that end. The program was composed of a single form with four major tabs or sub screens, which perform the following purposes:

• Users – Add, change or delete names, user Ids, and passwords of users privileged to access the budgeting system.

• Menus – Define, change or delete the names of major system menus or categories that sub-processes are attached to.

• Sub Processes – Define, change or delete the names of sub-processes as child records associated with menus and major categories.

• User Options – Define, change or delete the names of sub-processes as child records to individual users that these users are allowed to access and run. This facility also allowed a user to acquire a copy of another user’s option privileges to enable the creation of general job definitions.

When a user runs the School Department’s Budgeting system, the user only sees and thus may only access those user options that the user is privileged to access.