Need a little clarification about global variables

[Rich S]

HNY, everybody!

I found this thread ( https://community.claris.com/en/s/question/0D50H00006dslGcSAI/global-fields-global-variables-multiuser?t=1672849179399 ) that provides basic info about using global variables in a hosted database (FM Server v19, WebDirect), but I need a little extra help understanding a concept.

If a solution is accessible to many WebDirect users using a single Account name (Guest) and multiple users are signed in concurrently, are global variables subject to being overwritten by subsequent execution of scripts or are global variables "owned" by each user (per session) so their content is immune from "interference" from other users even when the same script is run?

As an aside, there will be hundreds (if not thousands) of potential users accessing the database so creating discrete FileMaker accounts would be problematic to manage; we thought of using AD for sign-ins but that too, is problematic because there will be non-organizational users signing in (who won't be in AD) and there are 19 other organizations/domains and getting our domain to validate others seems to have some sticking points (and expenses) that my department supervisor would like to avoid.

TIA for your help,

Rich

Edited January 4, 2023 by WF7A

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Global variables are scoped to the current session.