Global Container for Multi-Users

[Richard Sillitto]

Hello all,

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question - but I'm not sure where is. It sort of applies to Layouts?!

I want to have a "useful info" page where weekly one of the guys in the office inserts a PDF into a container field that then is available to everyone on the system, kind of like a noticeboard.

I've set up a global container field for this purpose, which works ok in isolation, but I've only recently learnt the fact that global fields have a new instance per user in a multi-user environment (as I am).

This is, of course, great most of the time.

But for my example, what's the easiest way to make the field available to all users.

Is it as simple as making a "Useful Information" table and making sure only one record ever gets created, and it is in a container field on this record that the data gets updated?

Somehow feels vulnerable to having another record created somehow ruining the party...

Many thanks,

Richard.

[mr_vodka]

Pretty much. Usually there would be a preferences table that stores information for all users to see. You could then relate this pref table to other tables using the Cartesian 'X' operator in the join. This way no matter which record you are on, you can access it.