Exported data privilege set

[DukeS]

Hi!

How can I prevent opening file in FileMaker after export? When I export data into new FileMaker file using "Export Records" script step an Admin account is automaticly created.

Thanks in advance

Dejan

[Fitch]

You're going to have to think outside the dialog box on this one. You'll have to have a file as part of your solution that has your desired accounts and privileges set up. You can then save a clone of this file and import into it rather than exporting from your original file.

Or, rather than saving a clone, you could keep the file in a container field and use Export Field Contents to save the file where you like, then import into it as above.

[DukeS]

Thanks, good thinking Fitch...

And I must say...FileMaker has to complicate things as possible...

Wouldn't be nice to have one additional parameter in Export Records to set privileges in exported file?

[Fitch]

It would be nice for your particular problem, but in general an export is just that -- the idea is that you are exporting data, period. The fact that one of the export formats is FileMaker is incidental.

Let's say you could control the access privileges of the exported file. Once you go down that road, where do you stop? Should we be able to modify fields, layouts, and scripts of the exported file? Sure, it would be interesting to have those features, but it seems to me we're getting into a realm beyond mere exports.

[DukeS]

Well, I wasn't thinking about privileges that way...

I just want to prevent any potential user opening exported file in FileMaker.