password field

[pirlouit]

Is there a way to have a password field in a layout ? I know it's possible in a dialog box but is it possible in a layout ?

thank you

pirlouit

[transpower]

Sure, but you would need two fields, old_password, new_password. You would have to have a script to take the values and use them in the Change Password script step. Then you would have to put the new_password in the old_password field (for the next time around).

[pirlouit]

sorry, I should have put more details. I want the user to type a password in a text field. but instead of showing plain text in the field, I want to show *******.

[transpower]

The Book of FileMaker lists various Plug-ins which might work for your problem, and FMI's site has a list.

[RalphL]

You need a bullet font. That means that you have to have that font installed on every machine.

I would be very concerned about having a password in the file.

[transpower]

Good idea, Ralph--just change the font!

[Vaughan]

A font change may make all characters look the same, but the text itself is not really being obscured.

Just copy the text and paste it into another field formatted with a normal font to see what the password is.

[transpower]

Vaughan:

That's certainly true, too--but would a typical user be smart enough to do that? Anyway, I still think a Plug-in would be the best solution here.

[RalphL]

I think that having the password stored in a file is a bad idea. I would use the custom dialog box which has the ability to hide the password and put it into a global field which I would clear as soon as I was done with the password.

[Lee Smith]

but would a typical user be smart enough to do that?

Yes and a lot more.

[pirlouit]

It's just that I want to publish my solution with Instant Web Publishing and I want the user to login, so I need a field for username and another for password. And when the user type his password, I want to hide it.

And because of the IWP, I don't think a plugin will work.

[merlyn383]

The standard logins and access privileges that are built into FM work with IWP as well.

Go to File -> Define -> Accounts & Privileges (that's for FMPro7, I think it's similar in FMDev7) to define login accounts.

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Kevin

[Vaughan]

" ...but would a typical user be smart enough to do that? "

It depends. If they are old enough to have kids of their own, probably not. The big worry is they might ask their kids for ideas.

Kevin's suggestion is good.

If anybody wants to spend time pushing the envelope, see if scripts can be run through IWP that allow the user accounts to be managed remotely. (Log-in through the browser, click on buttons that create and delete the built-in user accounts.) That would be cool.