Guide to Updating Plug-ins

7-10 FileMaker Server Administrator’s Guide
4. Enter text for the options in the dialog box, or accept the default
message and settings.
5. Click OK.
If the Files tab is displayed, the Status of the files being closed
changes to indicate that FileMaker Server has begun closing files.
Guests see a notification dialog box with your message requesting
they close their connection to a file. If guests don’t close the file, the
message repeats approximately one minute before the file is set to be
closed by FileMaker Server.
When the set time elapses, FileMaker Server disconnects any
remaining guests and closes the file or files in the folder. The file or
folder name no longer appears in the Remote Administration
window.
Completing the process of closing a folder, a large database file, or a
file with many connected guests may take several minutes.
Tips
1 Mac OS: To close files while working on the server computer, see
“Closing hosted files (Mac OS 8.6 to 9.1)” on page 7-15.
1 Mac OS: You can also close files using Apple events. For more
information about Apple Events, see the AppleScript Examples
folder in the FileMaker Server 5.5 folder.
1 Windows: You can also close files from the command line. See
“Using the command line to automate tasks (Windows)” on page 8-8
for more information.
Disconnecting guests
To disconnect a guest from a hosted database:
1. In the Remote Administration window, select the guest to
disconnect.
2. Click Disconnect Guest.
You see the Disconnect Guest dialog box with the name of the guest
to be disconnected in the title bar.
3. Enter text for the options in the dialog box, or accept the default
settings.
For this option Do this
Message to send Type text you want the guests to see in addition to the
standard FileMaker Pro message (asking guests to close
the database file).
Minutes until guest
forced to disconnect
Enter a value (the default is 5 minutes or the
last-entered value).
Type your message here
Enter the number of minutes
until FileMaker Server will
disconnect guests
Click And select To
Guests The guest’s name Disconnect the selected guest
from all databases
Guests guestname The database file under
the guest’s name in the list
Disconnect the guest from the
selected database
Files filename The guest’s name under
the database in the list
Disconnect the selected guest
from a particular database
For this option Do this
Message to send Type text you want the guest to see in addition to the
standard FileMaker Pro message (the default).
Minutes until guest forced
to disconnect
Enter a value (the default is 5 minutes or the last-
entered value).