Once you assign an account to this privilege set, when that user logs in, she’ll see the Delete Record button disabled when she looks at Customer records: **From the Records pop-up menu, make a reasonable choice.**įor example, if you want to remove the ability to delete records of any kind, choose “Create and edit in all tables.” For the ultimate in control, choose “Custom privileges.” This window shows a privilege set configured so users can create records in any table, but can only *delete* Vendor records: If you’re doing this for the first time, it is probably easiest if you duplicate the privilege set so you start off with some reasonable privileges.ģ. You’ll probably need to switch to the Privilege Sets tab. **Open one of your existing privilege sets, or create a new privilege set.** The Accounts & Privileges dialog box appears.Ģ. **In your database, choose File -> Manage -> Accounts and Privileges.** For instance, you can remove the ability to delete a record only once its Status field has been set to “shipped.” When you do, the Delete Record button will disable when you view shipped records.ġ.
This even works for so called “record level access” privileges. When you do, the associated status toolbar button will disable as appropriate. Using custom record privileges you can remove the ability for a user to create or delete records for any particular table. Which you use is a matter of your security and user interface needs. You can restrict access to menu commands using a privilege set and finally, you can use custom menus to remove troublesome menu commands. You can set up custom record privileges to control who can create and delete records. There are three ways to disable buttons in the Status toolbar (not all apply to all buttons). A database with locked-down user interface in 9 is just as locked down in 10. >Note: If you have the equivalent menu commands disabled in your database, then the buttons are already disabled too.
* Rename buttons to better reflect the terminology in your database * Reconnect most buttons to scripts of your own * Disable buttons you don’t want your users to click You cannot add your own buttons or custom icons, but *you can*: But it turns out you have more control over these buttons than most people realize. After all, many of you have special buttons on your layouts specifically for record creation and deletion, and you certainly don’t want people willy-nilly switching layouts to the wrong view, confusing themselves in the process. If you leave the Status toolbar open, your user will see prominent New Record and Delete Record buttons (among others). In FileMaker 10, the standard Status toolbar looks something like this: : “Our complete coverage of FileMaker Pro 10” In this article we’ll show you why you don’t need to worry, and how you can make the new Status toolbar *work for you*. Perhaps because of its prominent position, or because it is such a striking departure from a 20-year FileMaker mainstay, this change has been met with its fair share of controversy. ’s most visible new feature is the completely redesigned Status toolbar (formerly called the Status *area*).
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