Security
How Do I Secure SeedCodeCalendar ?
SeedCodeCalendar is distributed without any security in place; there are no accounts or passwords set up whatsoever. You’ll likely want to add some security to your copy as you deploy it. If you have an existing FileMaker solution to which you’re adding the calendar, the security of the calendar will need to be modified to fit in seamlessly with your existing security system. This means creating the same privilege sets and accounts in SeedCodeCalendar as you have in your existing solution.
If you don’t have an existing security solution to move into SeedCodeCalendar, you’ll want to set up at least some basic security for the calendar:
a) You’ll want to prevent you users from modifying the schema (field definitions, scripts, and layouts) of the calendar. Even if you allow schema modifications to the data tables like appointments, you’ll want to prevent such changes to the Calendar table where most of the interface work of the calendar takes place.
b) Users should also be prevented from deleting or creating new records in the Calendar table. The six interface records there are used to display the month view of the calendar; if one is deleted or an extra record is created, the calendar will no longer display properly. Preventing the accidental creation or deletion of records in the Calendar table will prevent these problems. An easy way to accomplish this is to create a new privilege set for your users and change the menu access for this privilege set to “Editing Only”. This will remove the “Delete Records” command (along with other pesky items) from the menu and force users to use your scripts to delete records.
If records are created or deleted accidentally you can use the reset script in SeedCodeCalendar to restore the original records. This script is set to run with “full access privileges” so you’re security settings won’t get in the way of it. No other scripts in the calendar are set to run with “full access privileges,” so if you really lock down the calendar you may want to add this option to some of the calendar scripts.
c) When you deploy the calendar be sure to remove the Show Status Area script from the Scripts menu. Also be sure to change the first line of the Adjust Window script to lock the status area when hiding it.
