Can fields be user specific?

[chris suddes]

I am pretty new to FM & need some help. I am building a simple CRM system for a client and want to have a field where users can add private notes (called Jim on 20 October etc) , ie data that is only visible to that specific user. Database is hosted on a filemaker server and will be accessed via instant web publishing. I guess this is a simple thing but so am I :)

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Yes, this is easily done.

See the answer I posted earlier today in http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/181347/

which is in this very same forum.

Steven

[chris suddes]

Many thanks for speedy reply - will give it a try and report back. Much appreciated

[chris suddes]

Hi Steven. It was me - I must have screwed up somewhere navigating around the forum. :

Who might you be? You're not the Original Poster who was seeking Record Level Access. There isn't field level access based on a specific user, although I have often been tempted to try to invent such a thing. Thre are probably a couple of workaround ways to do this; however, they are likely real kludges.

Still trying to address this issue - I can get as far as auto entering the current user name but thats about it. To be clear then, I want the data in one field on my table to only be visible and editable by the user who entered it; when he goes back there his data is visible, when I go there I see my data etc.

I must get myself some training! Many thanks and big respect to your super brain :

[Twd70]

if the info is stored in another table say 'contact history' with a stamp for which user made it....

then create a portal which is filtered to show only data for that user?

thats how i'd do it. dont know the calculation off the top of my head

[Twd70]

scratch the previous nub like comment.

please find attached a woking contacts records thingy.

made it myself : its all about the button.

I was logged in as 'Admin' when i created the record and when i searched for my results.

hope u read this in time!

>>>>SEE HERE: http://fmforums.com/forum/showpost.php?post/226456/

[chris suddes]

Many thanks for that - much appreciated :