(Editor’s Note: As some of you know I’ve been asking my colleagues to write tips and tricks content for the blog. At some point in the future we may be asking the group community at large for contributor content as well. Jerry is a 9 Certified FileMaker Developer at ITS; he also runs the 101 and Intermediate trainings here. Thanks, Jerry!
– Colin).
One thing that really gets my goat is multiple security gates. If I have already logged into my computer using a login and pw, why do I still have to use another login and password to further authenticate myself when I open my database? Worse yet, sometimes an end user will put in an account/password to get into the computer, then the SAME account/password info to log into the database.
There are a couple of ways around this. Most programmers will tell you, “Use Single Sign On authentication.” FileMaker developers will typically say, “Use an opener file and save the login and PW there.”
Both of these are fine if the situation merits or permits it. Here I present another option. In this case, the end users are not using active directory to manage Accounts. They also don’t want to use an opener file, for a number of reasons that are outside the scope of this document.
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