Record Deletion

[Robert R]

How can I prevent the user from deleting records from the menu while allowing him to delete records through a command button? I only want the user to be able to delete records created today.

Where does FileMaker get today's date from? Does it get it from the FileMaker Server? Or the users' computer?

[Robert R]

I don't want a user to be able to change the system date and thus fool the system into allowing multiple deletions.

Maybe a better way to do this is to only allow deletions of recent records, i.e. the last 5 or so... Is there any way I can find out through a script what the next or last number of a serial field will be?

[Robert R]

Nevermind, I discovered that the Max() function will do this.

By the way, thank you for all of your help.

[manitobaangler]

How can I prevent the user from deleting records from the menu while allowing him to delete records through a command button?