I see the "User Name" and the User Name Symbol in the "insert menu" - but it
doesn't seem the print the actual logged in user.

Anyone have any experience of this problem please

Regards
guido
newcomer - day 1

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"guido" <dave.guy@btinternet.com> wrote in
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Try creating a field Username=Status(CurrentUserName). Make sure you go 
to "Storage Options" when creating the field and check the box "Do not 
store calculated results . . ." Then the field will show the current user 
name.


Regards

Brent Simon



> I see the "User Name" and the User Name Symbol in the "insert menu" -
> but it doesn't seem the print the actual logged in user.
> 
> Anyone have any experience of this problem please
> 
> Regards
> guido
> newcomer - day 1
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

"guido" <dave.guy@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:c4jmqo$2ibq5q$1@ID-71291.news.uni-berlin.de...
> I see the "User Name" and the User Name Symbol in the "insert menu" - but
it
> doesn't seem the print the actual logged in user.
>
> Anyone have any experience of this problem please

I believe the "User Name" is the name entered in the FileMaker
Preferences, not their logon name to their computer.

Cheers

Webko

guido wrote:

> I see the "User Name" and the User Name Symbol in the "insert menu" -
> but it doesn't seem the print the actual logged in user.
> 
> Anyone have any experience of this problem please
> 
> Regards
> guido
> newcomer - day 1

Status(CurrentHost) in windows I think returns the user's computer name
- so long as your not opening a file on filemaker server.
If you are opening a filemaker server file, CurrentHost will be the
name of the server computer, or a custom name if it has been set in the
filemaker server preferences.
This is not their logon username though.

HTH

Batfastad

guido <dave.guy@btinternet.com> wrote:

> I see the "User Name" and the User Name Symbol in the "insert menu" - but it
> doesn't seem the print the actual logged in user.
> 
> Anyone have any experience of this problem please
> 

The only current way to capture such data is to create your own login
system. Much too complex a project for a beginner if you're going to
enforce it and use it for security.

However, if you have compliant users, you can ask them to select their
name off a list during the startup script, and store the value they
select in a global field. This global may then be accessed from all
files using a constant relationship (a relationship between fields which
contain an auto-entered value, such as a "1").

Lynn Allen
www.semiotics.com


FM7 Tip of the Day: The new security model is now case sensitive. Make
sure all the passwords in the files you are converting are spelled and
capitalized (or not)  the same, or you'll have difficulties when opening
the files.