HELP! Kiosk mode activated itself.

[kjanisse]

Hi all,

I am just finishing up a system that I upgraded from v6 to v8. I am testing logins right now. When I login with a non-admin account, the database goes into kiosk mode.

BUT

I never ran developer tools on it and never activated kiosk mode!

As a test, I took the original v6 file and updated it to v8. This seems to cause the problem. This is a major bug!

If I create a v8 file from scratch, this problem does not occur.

Any ideas?

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Make a second file from scratch in FMP 6 and then convert it to see if the same thing happens. I suspect problems with your FMP 6 file.

Steven

[kjanisse]

Hi Steven,

Thanks for your reply. I did the test as you suggested and it was fine. So it looks like my v6 file is at fault.

The problem now is, what can I do? My understanding is that there is no way of removing the Kiosk mode once it is activated (even though I didn't).

I appreciate your help.

Ken

[Steven H. Blackwell]

For its activation kiosk mode depends on the settings in the Privilege Set. Tinker with those some or possibly delete and rebuild them to see if that works.

Steven

[kjanisse]

Thanks for the help Steven!

I played with the privilege sets as you suggested and I was able to prevent it from going into kiosk mode. I set the privilege to allow modification of value lists and set menu access to editing only. That did the trick.

I am still going to recreate the file from scratch at some point and bring all the elements back in from the offending file.

Thanks again for you help!

Ken

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Excellent.

Steven