Database Reference
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and
no access
if you want them to see that gray screen that prompts tech support calls in
Figure 18-8
instead.
▪
Records via this layout
. Use this option to determine whether or not people should be
able to see or edit data in fields on a particular layout. If you make records from the Cus-
tomer layout “view only,” then users can still edit them from the Customer List layout.
NOTE
If you want to prevent editing of customer data altogether, it makes more sense to use the record-
level privileges instead. The “Records via this layout” setting is available just in case you want to
restrict editing from one particular layout, even though the data in the table can be edited elsewhere.
Figure 18-9
shows the Custom Layout Privileges dialog box. This window has something
else that didn't exist on the Custom Record Privileges dialog box: The “Allow creation of
new layouts” checkbox lets you decide if these people can create their own new layouts. In
fact, you can let people who can't even add or edit data create layouts. For example, you
might have a whole class of people—the Accounting Department, say—who shouldn't be
editing customer records or adding product information, but who need to create monthly and
annual reports (read: layouts)
from
that data. See the box on
Any New Anything
for more
info.
