User manual
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introducing FileMaker Pro
- Chapter 2 Using databases
- About database fields and records
- Opening files
- Opening multiple windows per file
- Closing windows and files
- Saving files
- About modes
- Viewing records
- Adding and duplicating records
- Deleting records
- Entering data
- Finding records
- Making a find request
- Performing quick finds based on data in one field
- Finding text and characters
- Finding numbers, dates, times, and timestamps
- Finding ranges of information
- Finding data in related fields
- Finding empty or non-empty fields
- Finding duplicate values
- Finding records that match multiple criteria
- Finding records except those matching criteria
- Saving find requests
- Deleting and reverting requests
- Viewing, repeating, or changing the last find
- Hiding records from a found set and viewing hidden records
- Finding and replacing data
- Sorting records
- Previewing and printing databases
- Automating tasks with scripts
- Backing up database files
- Setting preferences
- Chapter 3 Creating databases
- Planning a database
- Creating a FileMaker Pro file
- Defining database fields
- Using supplemental fields
- Setting options for fields
- Defining database tables
- Creating layouts and reports
- Setting up a layout to print records in columns
- Working with objects on a layout
- Working with fields on a layout
- Working with parts on a layout
- Chapter 4 Working with related tables and files
- Chapter 5 Sharing and exchanging data
- Sharing databases on a network
- Importing and exporting data
- Saving and sending data in other formats
- Sending email messages based on record data
- Supported import/export file formats
- ODBC and JDBC
- Methods of importing data into an existing file
- About adding records
- About updating existing records
- About updating matching records
- About the importing process
- Converting a data file to a new FileMaker Pro file
- About the exporting process
- Working with external data sources
- Publishing databases on the web
- Chapter 6 Protecting databases with accounts and privilege sets
- Chapter 7 Converting databases from FileMaker Pro 6 and earlier
- Chapter 8 Security measures
- Index
176 | Protecting databases with accounts and privilege sets
1 Outputting data. Prevent users from printing or exporting data.
1 Menu access. Make only a limited set of menu commands available.
You restrict what users do in a file by requiring them to enter an account name
and password when they attempt to open a file. The account name and
password they enter determines which privilege set will be used and the
privilege set limits what they can do in a file. For more information about
accounts and privilege sets, see the following section.
You can define privileges in a shared file while clients are using it. Any
privilege changes that affect a current client do not take effect until the client
closes and reopens the file.
The privileges that you set up apply to a single file only and all database tables
within that file. If your database solution consists of multiple files that you want
to protect, you may want to combine all of these files into one multi-table file.
Then you can define privileges in only a single file to manage access to the
entire database solution. If you don’t want to combine the files into one file,
then you should define privileges in each file that contains items you want to
protect.
Important If you create a relationship in one file that references a table in another
file, you cannot manage access privileges for the related table in the first file. The
privileges defined in the other file control access to that table.
Accounts, privilege sets, and extended privileges
Accounts authenticate users who are attempting to open a protected file. Each
account specifies an account name and usually a password. Any user that
cannot specify valid account information won’t be able to open a protected file.
Each database file contains two predefined accounts: Admin and Guest. For
more information, see
“About the predefined accounts” on page 179.
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