filemaker external functions for remote admin

[Miko]

Does anyone have any experience on working with external functions for remote administration within their own scripts in custom made databases? I'm currently working on a script that will close a relational database for a specific group of users, while allowing administrators to remain logged in. I want to be able to script the external functions for Remote Administration to send users messages that the files are closing within a specific period of time from within my own solution, and then script those files to actually close. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Reed]

One way to pull this off would be through the use of the Troi Activator plugin... you can trigger scripts on remote computers. Scripts can also be scheduled to occur at set times. The scripts would just contain a conditional that would test for Status(CurrentGroups) before closing the file.

In FM v7, some of this stuff would be made a bit easier... for instance you could run a script that inactivates certain accounts, thereby disallowing those users from connecting to the database.