On 2013-05-18 18:35, Dave McGuire wrote: On 05/18/2013 12:04 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Is there a way we can get write access to the db? That way we can keep our own info up to date. I was thinking about it. Pros and cons. Easier for updating. Potentially anyone erasing the whole thing. The granularity of permissions is by the whole table. It would perhaps be possible to do something that everyone had their own table, and then I'd just pull data from all of them for various tasks. But then I'd have potential name collision issues and what not... Actually, thinking a bit more, I could probably do some web interface with people having their own passwords and the ability to update just their data that way. Needs some thinking perhaps, but maybe the most doable. Anyone else have some ideas on how to do it? I like the idea of giving us all write access. Maybe you can set up regular dumps of the database for restoration in case someone screws up. I can certainly do that. It just becomes a question of people might need to reenter information in case a rollback has to go far. Also trickier to realize if "corruption" actually have happened perhaps. On the other hand, I could atleast have permissions that only allowed random people to modify data, not add new, nor delete. It would give some of us a chance to learn Datatrieve in a real-world scenario. I myself have never worked with it and would like to learn it; I learn best by doing. Indeed. Very true. Datatrieve is not that different from something like MySQL really. Different syntax, and some different capabilities (mostly more restricted), but otherwise not that strange. If you've ever played with such things. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol