refresh current record

[jeffer]

Hi all,

I have a Filemaker Server running on MacOS X 10.2.6 and I experience some strange problems when using more than one client. For example: every client gets his own record when loggin in to a database. So when a user logs in to accounts receivable, he or she gets one record. The strange thing here is that when a second user logs in, the screen of the first user will refresh and he will see the record of the second user. I was told that each user get's and keeps his own found set, but i give a "go to related record:show only related" script command to give the user only his records. In this way, he can't screw up the records from other users. I didn't try anything since there are 30 databases witch all work that way...does anybody has some solutions to this or did you experience it yourself?

Please let me know when the story is not clear!

thnx & greetz,

Jeff

[EddyB]

Are you sure the 2nd client is looking at the server?

If the 1st client has a record in front of them, then a 2nd client logs in and the 1st sees what the 2nd gets, then it sounds as if the 1st client is hosting the database to the 2nd

i.e. The 2nd client is looking to the 1st client instead of looking to the server

When you open the database on the 2nd client it should come up with a splash window saying "Opening DatabaseName as guest of ......" check what the guest is.

Ed

[dkemme]

The other thought I have is if a client is looking at all of the records in a database and a new record is made in that database, suddenly that client could be shown that new record. This does not happen if the client does a find and is looking at only a few of the entire records of the database though.

[cjaeger]

this is true in list mode -> find all.

If you want to implement record ownership, use the corresponding feature in define passwords (FileMaker 5.5 and higher). just let us know if you need some assistance here.