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Menu Changes based on user preference setting

unknown1
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Menu Changes based on user preference setting

Can menu changes be conditioned based on a user preference setting? We have 2 different groups of users whos needs for publishing will be different based on a preference setting. I can verify the preference setting but can't seem to get it to execute the menu changes referenced in the instance.acl based on that setting. I am very new to ACL so please bear with me. :neutral:
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Sarah,

Yes. You can fill an array of the user names (login names for the
computer). When you start Epic, you then read the name of the user logged
in (you can get this name from the ENV["username"] variable). Then read
the array to see if the user is there. If they are they get menu
selection 1, if not, then menu selection 2.

Now if you have more than two menus you can place a specific menu option
in the array for their name. This method would require you to enter all
user names and a specified menu. Now if you have authors working multiple
projects needing different menus per project, you can also add a selection
(radio button) for them to select the project they are working to get the
desired menu.

This is the Readers Digest condensed version, but you get the general
idea.

Lynn
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