My client wants to add mail merge functionality to their FM-based contacts DB. They have created layouts within their existing FM file that print as form letters. I am re-doing the DB in kiosk mode so as to limit their ability to screw up layouts, scripts, etc. This will, however, also limit their ability to change or add these form letter layouts.

Anyone know a trick that will enable a user to create/edit a layout in kiosk mode? Or should they maybe create their form letters in Word and merge the database via ODBC? Will that work on a Mac? Is there a way to script it so they can call up the form letters directly from their DB interface and have them load and merge with the current found record set automatically?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers.

Mark East

As soon as you enable a privilege set to edit layouts, value lists, scripts, etc., that privilege set will no longer see kiosk mode.

If you just want to limit users from editing scripts, layouts, etc., just limit users access to view/execute only for those objects. You don't need to use kiosk mode for that.

You could also create a completely separate file for users which links via file references to the database file. Users would have the ability to do whatever they wanted with layouts and scripts in this file. So the main data file would remain in kiosk mode, but the merge layout file would not be in kiosk mode.