FW: Processing Password Questions

[Gary Olman]

Nancy;
You have told me before to use a site password. I guess I am just a little
hesitant (also know as wuss).
What happens if in the middle of a automatic process the PW is requested.
Or when will the PW be asked for. I have a client and I keep a copy of his
processes
on my computer.  If I use the same site PW on him will I be okay.? I have
about 8 fp processes
that run one after the other automatically, once the menu item is started.

PS I put this up on the fplist, I hope you don't mind
Regards
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Palmquist [mailto:nlp at vss3.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 2:09 PM
To: Gary Olman
Cc: Filepro-List
Subject: Re: FW: Processing Password Questions

Gary,

I know I am coming into the end of this thread, but I have to tell you 
that you should assign a site password in the beginning.  Write it down 
and put the password in the safe, make a copy of the fppath file it will 
create and put that in a safe place, you will never be stuck not knowing 
the password.  It will remain totally transparent until the system 
password does not match the process password.

SOAP BOX....  (As I have posted numerous times on this very subject...)

If you do not assign a password and it accidentally gets assigned later, 
as people always say, unbeknownst to them. (I love that word, not sure 
if I made it up or not but it fits.)

It will attach itself to each and every process table that you open and 
save, that has no password already.  This is transparent to the developer.

Then at some later time, the password is changed, removed or lost.  Now 
when you try to enter a process table, it prompts for a password and you 
do not know what it was.

VERY ANNOYING.

Now if you assign one and let it attach to all tables, if it ever asks 
you for a password, you know immediately that it was changed.  You can 
put the correct password back (from your carefully stored password 
notes.) and all will be well again.

When I helped fpTech with support, this was one of the common problems 
and I very strongly recommend that one always be assigned, even if it is 
"password" or "filepro" or something that simple.

SOAP BOX  -.... END

Saving in ASCII is great for two reasons in my book, it is faster and 
you can edit the tables without filePro - including the sitepassword 
data, if need be.

Nancy
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