Hi,

In my last app (a calender/booking system) I tried to separate the structure from the data, but failed. Everything is OK as a single user, but as soon as I hook up another user I get a portal lock.

The UI main layout is a calender style layout with the rows representing times from 9 AM to 8 PM and the columns representing different rooms. All eight columns are portals.

The default position when you start up is the 'today view' so all users will work with the same data (most of the time anyways).

Is there anyone that has an idea how I can solve this problem?

Cheers,

Magnus

Having developed speration model solutions since FileMaker 5 I have come across similar problems.

They easy answer in a pre-7 solution is that each user has their own record to view the diary and the portals are then relational links through global fields. When a user clicks a button to view the diary they are taken to their own record based on a login ID.

However you should also know that this is no longer a problem in 7 or 8.