Multi-user Applications

Usually, you will use Single-User Mode (Options, Users page) on a stand-alone computer and Multi-User Mode on a network. However, if you are not concerned with security on your network (e.g. a small number of reliable users) you may use this software in Single-User Mode (it will still work correctly when multiple users access the same record) - this simplifies the setup. Everybody will access the same set of databases. No user ids and passwords will be required. On the other hand, you may want to use Multi-User Mode on a stand-alone computer if there will be more than one user and each user needs to keep his or her database private.

• If you want to use this software in a multi-user environment set Multi-User Mode in Options (Users page).
• Only user who has the 'Supervisor' user id can modify user accounts (Options, Users page).
• Every user has his or her own private directory where his or her private databases are stored.
• Nobody else can access the user's private data.

The Supervisor's private directory serves at the same time as a Public Directory. All users can access the Public Directory (unless the Supervisor revokes their access privilege). This option is defined when the user account is created/modified.

If you want all your users to access one public (Supervisor) database account do the following.

• Create a new user account (UserName, UserID, Password(optional)), set Public Files Access Rights: Read and Write, click OK.
• The first time when the new user starts application, the Organizer opens with the default database that is created in the user's private account.
• To change the access to public database account: on the File menu click Load Database. In the Load Database window (Database Type section) click Public. Databases from the public account are displayed in the Available Databases box. Select the database from the Available Databases box and click Load.
• The program remembers last settings and next time will start with a database from the public account.

Make sure that you have read/write access to the record you wish to make changes to. Only one user is allowed to make changes to a given record at the same time. Our software uses record locking (even in Single-User Mode) and only the user who selected a given record first has full read/write access to it. All other users who select the same record later will have read-only access right to this record.