In the last post I showed how easily you can enable an Interactive Grid for editing, however what if you want to only allow the user to edit certain rows?

Lets imagine a scenario – given the standard EMP table, I should only be able to change the salary of Employees who report to me (i.e. I can’t change the salary of an employee if they report to someone else).

So, let’s create an Interactive Grid with the following query –

Now, for the purposes of this example, given the hierarchy of the EMP table –

I’m going to “pretend” to be BLAKE – since BLAKE is the manager of 5 people.

If you look at the properties of the Interactive Grid you’ll see the “Allowed Row Operations Column” setting, this allows us to define a column in the query which will be used to define whether I can Update…