[FP7} How can I tell who's accessing DB from IWP?

[mfethers]

I'm just starting with Filemaker 7 IWP. I want to run a startup script which checks whether the user is coming from the web or the network and go to a specific layout. I thought there would be a Get field which would determine this, but i have been unable to figure it out.

Thought?

FileMaker Version: 7

Platform: Mac OS X Panther

[jfmcel]

I don't see anyway either. I think an option would be to create a separate IWP opener or interface database.

[Charles Delfs]

Heres a method I have used to log users in fmp 6 but is way easier in 7

Create a new table 'LogHistory' that will hold the logged-in user history

In the login (Startup) script check if it is a FMIWP client and if so create a new record in your LOGHistory Table with the TimeStamp and UserIP

If you want to get fancy then add a text tracing field that appends the layout/operation the user is doing based on what scripts they run. This way you will have a good idea of who, when what, where and they did.

Charles

PS for the fmp6 users, the way I did this was to auto create a new record in the startup script of my web interface file. I auto enter ip , date and time, then goto layout of my greeting/landing page.

[mfethers]

Charles:

That sounds exactly what I'd like to do. But how do I "check if it is a FMIWP client" as you stated? That's the thing I can't figure out.

[Charles Delfs]

see the New business Tracker solution on filemakers site for an example, as I recall it checks to see if it is a local user or IWP user to show the web catalog.

(I dont have FMP on this machine right now so I cant tell you the exact calc's but basically you user some of the developer fuctions and check the privs' of the curent user)

Charles

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[Steven H. Blackwell]

One of the many changes. These will be documented in the forthcoming Migration Methodologies (mega) Tech Brief:

http://www.filemaker.com/upgrade/techbriefs.html

From that document:

Status(CurrentWebSharing) used to report whether or not Web sharing was enabled, regardless of whether any users were web based.

On conversion, this function is replaced with:

Position( Get( ApplicationVersion );

[mfethers]

Thanks, that did the trick.

Very useful way to manage web-restricted scripts.