Estimated Time To Read This: 2 minutes       Recently, I was working on a solution where some users only had View access to specific records in one of the tables. I set up a privilege set to do what I wanted, and – once I had worked the kinks out – things were working pretty smoothly; the test account I created could only see data in the records they were supposed to. The only hiccup was that the rest of the records showed up with “<no access>” in the fields – which is kind of ugly, and not ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 2 – 3 minutes       Recently, Alan discussed how flexible FileMaker can be, by letting you select a different custom menu for each layout.  While that kind of flexibility is invaluable, managing a large number of custom menus can be quite tedious.  I think it’s also rather noteworthy that FileMaker Pro’s custom menus can be set up in such a way that you won’t need multiple custom menus in order to accurately represent each layout.  Since the dialog box for ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 2 minutes       The new PD Place™ installation manual has been created for clients who want to have more control over the PD Place™ installation process within their internal network. Problem In the past, due to the technical requirements of PD Place™, the process of installing the software required the direct assistance of a PD Place™ developer. However, this meant that the PD Place™ developer required access to the servers where PD Place™ and its associated data would be ... Read More