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Tutorial 4 — The OmniForm Database
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Database Changes
You have changed individual records in fill view in this tutorial.
Changes to one record did not affect changes to another record.
However, changes in design view do affect your records.
To make a change in design view:
1 Click the Design button or choose
Design
in the View menu.
2 Delete the graphic object in the lower right corner.
3 Click the Fill button or choose
Fill
in the View menu.
4 Click the appropriate Records button to view each record.
The logo is now missing from every record.
Any change made in design view affects
all
the records in that particular
database. This is important to remember, especially if you have more
than one user of your database.
You can protect your database from unauthorized changes in several
ways:
• In design view, choose
Protection...
in the Tools menu to open the
Protection dialog box.
Select
Protect Data
to make all information read-only. No changes
can be made in fill view to any of the records. This also prevents
users from duplicating or deleting records.
Select
Protect Form
if you do not want anyone to be able to change
a form in design view. Remember, deleting a fill field in design
view also deletes
all
the information that was entered in that field
in fill view.
• Have other users use the program OmniForm Filler to open the
database. This is a version of OmniForm that has only a fill view.
Users cannot change the form’s design.