Passwords

[Roland]

Hello,

can I give passwords depending on a records name, so that a user can only see a limited number of records?

Thanks for any reply.

Roland

[Chuck]

Not with FileMaker's built-in password scheme. But you can use passwords with groups to assign a password to a group, and then check the current group to decide whether or not to show certain records or not.

You could also use an internal login scheme (where the user enters a password into a field), and use that as a basis for searches. For instance, you might have a users file which contains user names and passwords. The user passwords would have to be unique in the solution I have in mind, since you would have a relationship between the password in the file that they have entered and the password in the users file. Then you would have access to the user name via the password. Using this, you could assign a field in the current file the name of the user, and whenever a search is performed, add searching for that name in that field as part of the criteria.

Chuck