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ILEMAKER PRO HELP 462
Creating new privilege sets
You can create as many privilege sets as you need to define the types of access you want to permit
to a file. Then you can assign each privilege set to one or more accounts.
To create a new privilege set:
1. Choose File menu > Manage > Security.
The Manage Security dialog box appears. It initially shows the Accounts tab, which lists the
accounts defined for this file.
2. Click the Privilege Sets tab.
3. Click New.
The Edit Privilege Set dialog box appears. By default, each privilege set option is set to its most
restrictive setting.
4. Enter a name and description (optional) for the privilege set.
5. Manage the privileges for the privilege set. See:
• Editing record access privileges
• Editing layouts privileges
• Editing value list privileges
• Editing scripts privileges
• Editing extended privileges for a privilege set
• Editing other privileges
Editing existing privilege sets
You can edit existing privilege sets to allow or restrict permissions for a file.
Note You cannot change or delete the predefined privilege sets — Full Access, Data Entry Only,
and Read-Only Access — except to enable or disable
extended privileges for them. You can
duplicate the Data Entry Only and Read-Only Access privilege sets and then modify the duplicate
copies. See
Using the predefined privilege sets, Duplicating and deleting privilege sets, and Editing
extended privileges for a privilege set.
To edit an existing privilege set:
1. Choose File menu > Manage > Security.
2. In the Manage Security dialog box, click the Privilege Sets tab.
3. Select the privilege set you want to edit, and click Edit.
The Edit Privilege Set dialog box appears.
4. To rename the privilege set or edit the description, enter a new name for Privilege Set
Name or a new description for Description.
If you rename a privilege set, the privilege set name is also updated in all the accounts to which
that privilege set is assigned. You don’t have to manually update each account with the new
privilege set name.
5. Redefine the privileges for the privilege set.
For details on the different privileges you can define, see:
• Editing record access privileges