Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Editing a Privilege Set
If you need to make changes to a privilege set later (maybe you've added new fields, layouts,
or scripts to the database, and you have to make sure all your privilege sets give each group
its proper access), just come back to this window, select the privilege set you need from the
list and then click Edit. You see the Edit Privilege Set window again, and you're free to
change anything you want.
You can't edit FileMaker's built-in privilege sets. To change a set, duplicate it first and then
change the duplicate. Remember, though, that you can't duplicate [Full Access].
Managing Accounts
At the start of this chapter, you learned that FileMaker security has two facets:
who
can get in
and
what
they can do. So far, you've created a privilege set called Project Manager, which
handles the
what
part of the security equation. But a privilege set has no effect until you tell
FileMaker who gets those privileges. You handle the
who
part by assigning a privilege set to
an account. As you can see in the Manage Security window's Privilege Sets tab, your new
privilege set has no “Active accounts” assigned to it. This section covers creating and man-
aging accounts.
NOTE
You can have privilege sets that don't have active accounts, but you can't create an account without
assigning a privilege set to it, which is why most developers start out by creating privilege sets be-
fore they create accounts.
The Manage Security window's Accounts tab (
Figure 18-14
) shows you all the accounts in
your database. You never knew it, but all this time you've been using an account called Ad-
min. FileMaker added this account when you first created your database so you'd have full
access to the file without a password (see the box on
Automatic Login
for more info on this
account). Unfortunately, the rest of the FileMaking world knows this little “secret” too. So
your first job is to edit the Admin account.
