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The actions table contains a list a of all actions that can be performed within the program. Many of them are standard actions and are applicable to many different tables like 'view', 'display', 'create', 'copy', delete' etc. Other actions are only allowed for very few or even only one table like 'check user data' or 'resort'. Actions must be deliberately allowed for certain data (tables) to be applied on them. Actions can be either performed by an internal function, by an external php script or any other runnable program. Executables can be provided with input parameters. These parameters are transferred to the executable either as function parameter (internal function), as query string (as in links) or as commandline parameters and input. If an action is allowed for a table it will show up a as link in both list and edit windows

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Fields in the actions table

Key	Database field	Header	Description
NUMID	NUMID	NUMID	The numerical id.
ID	ID	ID	The short name of the action.
Owner	OWNER	Owner	The owner of the actions entry.
Dat	DAT	Last update	The date on which the action definition was last changed.
Text	TEXT	Text	A short text describing the action.
Description	DESCRIPTION	Description	A short description of the action.
Script	SCRIPT	Script name	The id of the script. Only scripts, which are explicitely allowed by the administrator can be run.
CommandLineParameters	CMDLINEPARS	Command line parameters	The command line parameters for the executable. For security reasons all apostrophes will be escaped (prepended by \) and the contents of the string will be enclosed in apostrophes.
Perm	PERM	Permission	The permission level, which is required to perform this action.
ProgInput	PROGINPUT	Program input	The program input for the executable. The program input must not contain the string 'EOF', because this string is used to feed the program input into the program. Moreover, the string must not match a regular expression, which is defined together with the executable. This allows to prevent executing arbitrary code from within the executed program.
Location	LOCATION	Location of the executing function	The type of function, which will be used for this action.
Redirect	REDIRECT	Redirect to	After the action is completed the browser can be redirected to either: no redirection at all (if the action displays proper html itself) a list of objects in the current table the current object the referring page an importer (this will feed the output of the action into the importers of the current table, which will fill extracted data into the current object).
Window	WINDOW	Window	This flag determines in what kind of window the output of the action is displayed.
AllowMultiple	ALLOWMULTIPLE	Allow applying on multiple objects	This flag is set, if the action shall be allowed to be applied to multiple objects.
AllowedParameters	ALLOWEDPARS	Additional allowed parameters	The additional allowed parameters for this action.
RequiredParameters	REQPARS	Required parameters	The required parameters for this action.
Share	SHARE	Shares	The Share field is used to give other users viewing or modifying rights for a certain object. Permissions can be given to specific users, to the group to which the object owner belongs to and to all users.

Actions in the actions table

Icon	Description
	display (and edit) the action
	create a new action
	copy the current action
	view actions
	delete the action
	update the action

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