Network Install Setup Guide

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Preventing users from creating database files
You can set a property, AI_NONEWDATABASES, that prevents users from creating FileMaker
databases. If the option is set, the FileMaker product displays an alert message when users do
the following:
1 Choose File menu > New Solution or New from Starter Solution.
1 Create a solution in the Launch Center window.
1 Export to a FileMaker Pro file.
1 Choose File menu > Save a Copy As.
1 Open the New File dialog box.
1 Recover a FileMaker Pro file.
1 Convert another file format (like tab-delimited) into a new FileMaker Pro file—for example—by
choosing File menu
> Open, then click Browse to find the file.
1 Execute an Apple event to open a file in another format.
1 Execute the Apple events do menu command to create a file.
1 Perform a script that does any of the above.
1 Choose a custom menu item that does any of the above.
To create databases, users must reinstall the FileMaker software with the
AI_NONEWDATABASES variable set to 0.