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FILEMAKER PRO HELP 1277
Important To more fully protect data, use record privileges, which limit access to all occurrences of
specific tables, records, or fields no matter where they are displayed or accessed.
The following table summarizes the strengths and drawbacks of layouts privileges and record
privileges:
When you use layouts privileges to restrict data access, make sure you also use appropriate record
privileges to completely protect your data. For more information, see
Editing record access
privileges and Editing layouts privileges.
About disconnecting users from FileMaker Server when idle
In the Edit Privileges dialog box, you can use the Disconnect user from server when idle option to
determine what happens to users of a file shared by FileMaker
Server after a certain period of
inactivity. You can:
• automatically disconnect the user after a certain period of inactivity, or
• always keep the user connected
Privilege Good for Drawbacks
Layouts
privileges
• Prohibiting layout design changes in
Layout mode
• Making layouts view-only
• Hiding layouts
• Does not protect the underlying table
data that the layout displays, leaving it
vulnerable to be accessed in many ways
Record
privileges
• Comprehensively protecting table,
record, and field data wherever they are
accessed
• None