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

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

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

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

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.