Help desperately needed! Trying to get something online by friday and I'm stuck / confused.

I want to have a single table that is accessible via IWP to both guests and registered users.

In general, this is easy -- just set up the [Guest] account and another account with the fmiwp Privilege. The problem though, is that when both Guest and non-guest accounts have IWP access, it causes Guests to get the IWP login screen.

In my case, we absolutely need a single form that can be customer branded -- the generic login screen (which requires a person to click the "Guest" checkbox) is not acceptable.

Has anyone found a reliable, straightforward way to allow this?

I've been experimenting with the following solution, but not yet got it to work:

DataFile.fp7 (has IWP access given to two users, call them "Public" and "Staff").

MenuFile.fp7 (has IWP [Guest] access only).

Give the public the URL for MenuFile.fp7, which lets them open it as guest w/o a dialog box via IWP. Then, put a button which triggers a script, re-logs in as the "Public" user and then switches to a layout on the DataFile.fp7 file. The "Public" user is not the [Guest] user, although it would have the same privileges. In theory, the relogin script should bypass the login dialog.

In practice, it doesn't work.

Has anyone figured out a way to make this work? I'd like to stick to a filemaker-only solution, but if I get desperate I'd be willing to use javascript etc.

I have come up with a workable solution, see http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/178642/