group enabled: editing ALL or NO layouts at all?

[harryk]

Getting into the 'access privileges' things rather as a newbie, I started yesterday experimenting with this section..

My intention was to make some lay-outs editable (the MailMerge lay-outs used for printing) and the other lay-outs non-editable. In other words, some with lay-out mode accessible and the others not.

As far as I experienced now, this is not possible. You can define for each lay-out the accessibility in browse mode (complete, read only or not at all), but the lay-out accessibility in the way of the Filemaker lay-out mode is a ALL or NOTHING thing.

I'm correct on that? Or are there bypasses? I could imagine that putting the lay-outs with lay-out mode accessible in another related file with changed <edit layout> accessiblity status would do the trick.

(sorry for my bad english this evening..)

Any comments are appreciated.

Harryk

[Anatoli]

I am afraid you come to the right conclusion. Editing is based on passwords and not on groups.

[The Bridge]

By all or nothing I assume you mean that you can either edit all layouts or none at all. If that's the case, download the attached file; it demonstrates how to allow editing of some layouts and disallow others. This is done with groups, by the way. Look at Access Privileges using the master password.

Full access password: master

Layout editing password: layout

EditLayout.zip

[harryk]

Thank you for making the attachment. I looked at it, but your file demonstrates some of the access (im)possibilities on group-level. It is indeed so that when you make a lay-out on group level read only that lay-out mode is impossible too, but what I looked for was the possibility to keep all access to the lay-out and to make the VIEW-LAY_OUT-mode possible or impossible per lay-out.

And Anatoli is right, this cannot be done.

But I tend to change direction..and making all Lay-out mode impossible in my solution, the Filemaker version also. (In runtime it would be impossible altogether).

The only argument for me to keep Lay-out mode accessible was optimal-user control in some MailMerge functions.

But 8 out of 10 users would only mess-up things I believe.

And then another argument comes around the corner, and that is the protection of my solution.

Thanks anyway

Harryk

[The Bridge]

Ah. You don't just want to limit the ability to edit layouts, but to view them in layout mode. My apologies, I misinterpreted your initial post.

My intention was to make some lay-outs editable (the MailMerge lay-outs used for printing) and the other lay-outs non-editable.