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7-8 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
Protecting your files
When you share databases, you need a security system so that confidential
data is protected and unauthorized changes aren’t made. With
FileMaker Pro, you protect files by defining passwords and groups.
Passwords limit what users can do and groups limit the layouts and fields
they can see. Both passwords and groups have access privileges:
1 For passwords, access privileges limit a user’s activities with a file.
For example, one password might let users create and edit records,
but another might only let them browse records.
Passwords can also limit access to an entire file—if you don’t know
a password, you can’t open the file.
1 For groups, access privileges limit access to specific layouts and
fields. For example, you can give the Sales group access to one set of
layouts and fields and the Marketing group access to a different set,
keeping each group’s information private within the same database.
Passwords and groups are related. You can define a password for each
employee in your company, and then associate passwords with groups
to limit access to each department’s data. For example, in a file
containing employee information, only passwords in the Human
Resources group can see salary information.
Choose FileMaker Help Index from the Help menu, and then type:
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If a guest clicks Cancel,
FileMaker Pro doesn’t close
the connection to the file
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