Disabling Kiosk Mode

[stockingup]

Hi everyone... I have been working on a solution for a company for 6 months now and it is approaching its finalisation. however, I had initially setup just a small portion of the functionalities on a kiosk computer for inventory tracking. However, I now need to disable all kiosk functionality and my searches have led me to believe this is not possible... SURELY there would be some sort of warning if this was the case??

There MUST be a way to undo this no? Otherwise what are my options? The database is to be accessed by people across the entire office building. Some of these work in the warehouse where kiosk would probably be desireable. Others still need access to that data and those files but to view on their desktop computers... Is there no way of changing this mode and disabling it altogether?

Otherwise what could I do? Would I have to remake the entire database (6 months worth of work?)

Please advise me as to the options available for me.

Best Regards,

Jason V.

[RalphL]

Bruce Robertson posed this on another list a few days ago:

A file that has had kiosk mode turned on can be converted back to no-kiosk

by creating a runtime from that file, with kiosk option turned off.

Change the file extension back from USR to fp7 and you're back in business.

FMDiff doesn't seem to detect any difference except that in the opened-with

history it notes that was opened by the runtime engine.

I haven't tested it.

[stockingup]

Hi, Thanks for the reply. I was getting ready to begin a long export and import process which would undoubtedly result in numerous errors, but your method seemed to work. Do you know if there are any side effects to this?

Best regards, and many thanks for the reply,

jason v.

[HOnza]

Not sue if this worked back in 2008 but in FileMaker Pro 12 Advanced you can disable the kiosk mode by saving a copy of your database as a clone.

 

HOnza