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Editing scripts privileges

Privilege sets can limit access to scripts in a file. For a file, you can set:

•	Privileges for all scripts: you can allow or prohibit the ability to view, create, and modify scripts. You can also hide all the scripts in a file to prevent them from being run by the privilege set.

•	Custom privileges for individual scripts: you can set whether each script is modifiable or not. You can also hide a script to prevent it from being run by the privilege set.

Note  Although some script privileges described below allow the ability to run scripts, the actions permitted by a privilege set determine whether the steps in a script will execute successfully or not. For example, if a privilege set does not permit accessing a Salary field, then a script containing the Go to Field [“Employees::Salary“] script step will fail. You can override script privileges by granting full access privileges to the script in the Script Workspace window.

To edit privileges for all scripts:

1.	Start editing a new or existing privilege set in the Edit Privilege Set dialog box.

See Creating and editing privilege sets.

2.	In the Data Access and Design area, for Scripts, choose All modifiable, All executable only, or All no access. These options allow or prohibit the following:

 

Privilege	All modifiable	All executable only	All no access
Running scripts	Allowed	Allowed	Prohibited
Viewing script names in the Scripts menu (except those that are hidden by clearing the checkbox to the left of the script name in the Script Workspace window)	Allowed	Allowed	Prohibited
Opening the Script Workspace window to view, create, group, filter, edit, duplicate, delete, and print scripts	Allowed	Prohibited	Prohibited
Allowing scripts to be imported into other database files	Allowed	Prohibited	Prohibited
Viewing script steps in the FileMaker Pro Advanced Script Debugger and Database Design Report	Allowed	Prohibited	Prohibited

3.	Click OK, then click OK in the Manage Security dialog box.

Or, to assign the privilege set to one or more accounts, see Creating and editing accounts.

To edit privileges for individual scripts:

1.	Start editing a new or existing privilege set in the Edit Privilege Set dialog box.

See Creating and editing privilege sets.

2.

In the Data Access and Design area, for Scripts, choose Custom privileges. In the Custom Script Privileges dialog box, select each script (or select Any New Script to set privileges for any script created later) and set privileges for it. When you’ve finished setting privileges for individual scripts, click OK.

 

To	In the Custom Script Privileges dialog box
Allow running, viewing, editing, printing, and deleting the script; also allow the script to be imported into other database files	For Privilege, choose Modifiable. Note  Even if the script is modifiable, you cannot modify a script that runs with full access privileges unless your account is assigned the Full Access privilege set. See Creating and editing scripts.
Allow running the script only; prohibit viewing the script in the Script Workspace window	For Privilege, choose Executable only.
Prohibit running or viewing the script; the script name will not appear in the Scripts menu	For Privilege, choose No access.
Allow creating new scripts and duplicating any modifiable script	Select Allow creation of new scripts.

Tip  You can also set individual privileges for multiple scripts at once by first selecting multiple scripts in the Custom Script Privileges dialog box. See the Notes section below.

3.	Click OK, then click OK in the Manage Security dialog box.

Or, to assign the privilege set to one or more accounts, see Creating and editing accounts.

Notes

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In the Custom Script Privileges dialog box, the Notes column indicates which scripts run with Full Access privileges. Depending on what these scripts do, you may want to set Executable only or No access script privileges for them in certain privilege sets. For more information on running scripts with Full Access privileges, see Creating and editing scripts.

•	You can select multiple scripts in the Custom Script Privileges dialog box in order to set privileges for multiple scripts at once:

•	To select multiple scripts, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (OS X) each script name.

•	To select a range of adjacent scripts, click the first script, and then Shift-click the last script in the range.

•	To select all scripts, click Select All.

•	To change the order of the scripts displayed in the Custom Script Privileges dialog box, click one of the column headings to order the list by that column. To switch between ascending and descending order, click the column heading again.