All users have full access

July 4, 200322 yr

I work for a company of about 50 employees. I recently started doing alot of work from home. After I started working from the house it seems the owner has placed the full access password on a board next to a computer. I recently started noticing layouts changing(very disturbing). One layout that changed is a large portal that..yes...is used for printing. I fixed the layout and tried to explain that moving and resizing fields on this layout could be a disaster.

The owner feels everyone should have full access. I totally disagree. It is a matter of time before someone looks at a script and changes it without understanding what they did. Or possibly change a field format, only to make a calculation stop working. Or worse....show all records......Delete all records. I feel that myself and the owner should be the only 2 people with full access.

What is everyones opinion on this matter?

July 4, 200322 yr

Unless you want to be restoring "good" versions of the database off your backups everyday then I would say only the developer and maybe a select few who understand filemaker should have full access to a database.

I would never allow standard users full access, it is far too dangerous and will just end up causing you much work and hassle than it's worth.

July 4, 200322 yr

That is plain silly! Get immediately written agreement from "owner", that you are not responsible for any disaster which will happen from now.

July 4, 200322 yr

Track the time and cost of fixing things that get messed up because the users have full access. Show this cost as a separate item when you do your invoice so that the owner knows what he's paying for his full-access policy. He may change his mind quickly.