access privileges

[Maarten Witberg]

Hi.

 

for a solution I'm preparing I am thinking about creating three access levels: developer, administrator and user.

User obviously will be restricted to record creation and modification and suchlike. Developer (i.e., I) will have full access. Intended admins I would like to give limited access to layout modification and field definition.

 

In v6, I know of no way to achieve either. Browsing around v7, I see the possibility to give limited modification access for layouts. But I don't see the possibility of limited access to field definition. Obviously, I would not want admins to mess around in my data structure, I only want to give the opportunity to create text, number and calc fields for content manipulation.

 

Nor do I want to allow them to put fields in their layouts that belong to the core of the solution such as IDs, counters etcetera.

 

Did I miss this in v7 or is it not there, and is there a better idea than the one I have so far, which is making precooked layouts with precooked fields admins can select?

 

thanks

 

kjoe

[Ender]

In FM7, you can allow non "[Full Access]" privilege sets to edit certain layouts, value lists, and scripts, but not the field definitions or the relationship graph.

 

You might define some globals for user calculations, and use the evaluate function to show the result.

[Maarten Witberg]

thank you Ender, this evaluate function looks good. it's a whole new experience this v7.

I suppose that for the time being I am letting go of my previous ambitions regarding access privileges.

An alternative way may be if I start looking into separation. But I am totally out of my depth in that respect so far.

 

kjoe