http://mydbsolutions.com/wp FileMaker Pro Consulting & Developtment - Certified Developers Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:20:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://mydbsolutions.com/wp/2010/03/08/user-dashboard-and-global-fields/ http://mydbsolutions.com/wp/2010/03/08/user-dashboard-and-global-fields/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:26:25 +0000 admin http://mydbsolutions.com/wp/?p=179 Ever want a dashboard for a user when they login?  This is a great idea but these are not always easily created in FileMaker.  In order to do this in FileMaker remember each user must have their own record as a landing page.  This cannot be done using global fields on a single record.  Using global field will allow only one person to make changes to related date and everyone else will be locked out and must wait until the first person in commits their changes.  You can create a temporary record for  each user when they log in or better yet have a user table and a script that sends them to their specific record.

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