Prevent user from accessing menus

[Thomas An]

Hi all,

Is there a way to prevent users from creating new records by accessing the "records" menu?

Currently all these operations are handled by the UI of the layout and there are some scripts that need to be run during new record creation (therefore the user should *not* add records from the menu).

Is there a way to restrict record creation to be done ONLY from the layout elements ?

Thanks,

Thomas

[Wim Decorte]

In FileMaker 8 you can define custom menus. But not in 7. In 7 you can work with the SecureFM plugin (www.nmci.com) to disabe menus.

[Thomas An]

Thank You for the reply !

Yes, I need to update to v8 ... soon -)

[comment]

You CAN do this in version 7, too, by restricting account privileges. The difference is that the menu command will still be there - but greyed out. Note that the script that creates a new record must be run with full access privileges.

[Thomas An]

Yes, that would do (its ok if they are grayed out)...

hmm ... I think I got it now by creating a new privilage set and giving it full access but using the "minimum menus" option (didn't see that option before.

Thanks,

Thomas