I have a .fp7 format file hosted on a FM10 Server. I am rolling out iPad access using FM Go 11. I have two types of user, powerful admin users and less powerful standard users. My users access the DB with both Macs and iPads using the same login.

 

I am getting a strange behaviour in Find Mode on the iPads. My powerful users can open a search screen (via a script), enter data into a field, hit the keyboard  'Go' button and have their search performed - all ok so far. But when my standard users enter Find Mode they become trapped in a cycle of moving from field to field, ie: the keyboard 'Go' button has no effect - they cannot perform a search!

 

I have looked at the two Privilege Sets and the setting that makes the difference is the 'Available Menu Commands'. My standard users are limited to 'Editing only', while my powerful users have access to 'All'. I cannot possibly allow my standard users to have full access to the menus, accidental COMMAND-Ns and they will be filling the DB with empty records etc! 

 

Any suggestions on how I can make their searching work on the iPad without allowing them to use the full menu set on their desktops?

1) You can use custom menus to determine which commands users have access to.

2) You can use privilege sets to determine whether users can create new records/delete.

 

#1 is probably better for your needs as you can control all the commands (like Replace Field Contents).

 

Why are you doing this in pre-12? FM Go 11 for the iPad is $40 and FM Go 12 is free.

Thanks for the response David. I will give Custom Menus a try.

 

The choice of FM GO 11 is dictated by the overall setup. It is a .fp7 system running on FMS10 with several desktop clients running FM 9, 10 and 11. For now, I don't want to roll the entire system forward to FM12 just yet - that would involve clients, server and full testing of the converted solution, a lot of work just to give a couple of iPads access. I will go to FM12 at some point, but this is not the driving decider.

No - Custom Menus didn't work! I created a custom menu set that did not contain 'New Record' etc. and made it the default menu for the whole DB. But my iPad users are still trapped in a never ending loop of search tabbing! In Find Mode they can tab from field but the keyboard Go button never works - ie: they cannot perform a search! Where am I going wrong?! It works fine on the desktop machines - why not on the iPad?

Did you change the privileges set to "All Available" commands?

I certainly did! Still the same behaviour - Find Mode is trapped in a loop of jumping from tabbed field to field, never allowing the search to be performed.

 

If it helps, I tried copying the file onto the iPad and the problem remains even when the file is local to the device.

Hmm...Maybe we have it backwards and the limited accounts are performing the expected (though not desired) behavior. In the Inspector, a field has a setting for "Go to next object using..." Make sure the fields have only Tab checked.

I did find a solution - though not as elegant as I would have liked - I added a Perform Find button to the layout.

 

Strange though that the problem existed, without a Perform Find button the user remains trapped in a tabbing cycle!