Read-only for one front end

[Guest]

Hello everyone, and thank you all for getting me this far. I have six users,
all with the same front end, and with the ability to edit records. My boss
wants to add a seventh user, but not let him add, delete, or in any way edit
records. I have read some posts about permissions and user profiles, but
this is way outside the scope of my ability. Is there an easy, laymens, way
to make his front "read-only", that does not require entering in any code?

Greg Snidow

 

[Keith]

Hello everyone, and thank you all for getting me this far. I have six
users,
all with the same front end, and with the ability to edit records. My
boss
wants to add a seventh user, but not let him add, delete, or in any way
edit
records. I have read some posts about permissions and user profiles, but
this is way outside the scope of my ability. Is there an easy, laymens,
way
to make his front "read-only", that does not require entering in any code?

User-level security is the obvious answer but have you tried making the 7th
person's copy of the FE read-only using NTFS File permissions? Never tried
it myself but it might be worth a try.

Regards,
Keith.
www.keithwilby.com

 

[Guest]

Its unlikely there is an easy way that does not result in a slew of strange
error messages appearing. One way is to place some code in each forms open
event which sets the properties of every control to locked. Obviously that is
a lot of work if you have many forms and controls. You can also switch the
'allow edits' property of the form to False.