Administrator’s Guide (Mac OS)

2-10 FileMaker Pro Server Administrator’s Guide
3. Click Close Database.
You see the Close File dialog box with the name of the file or folder to be
closed in the title bar.
4. Type text for the options in the dialog box, or accept the default settings,
and then click OK.
The file or folder name in the list changes to italics to show that
FileMaker Pro Server is closing it.
FileMaker Pro guests accessing the file see a notification dialog box with
your message requesting they close the file. If guests don’t close the file,
they see the message repeated approximately one minute before the file is
set to close.
When the set time elapses, FileMaker Pro Server disconnects any
remaining guests and closes the file or files in the folder. The file or folder
name no longer appears in the administer window.
Completing the process of closing a folder, a large database file, or a file
with many connected guests may take several minutes. FileMaker Pro
Server needs time to notify and disconnect guests and perform
housekeeping tasks on the files before closing them.
For this option Do this
Message to send to connected guests Type text you want the guests to see in addition to
the standard FileMaker Pro message (the default).
Minutes until guests forced to disconnect Type a value (the default is 5 minutes or the
last-entered value, if any).