IM5-Database in a netwerk

[Gerd]

Dear Mario,

I read in the help-file, that a IM5-database can used in a netwerk and that the database is locked, if a user has opened it in write-enabled-mode.
Is there a possibility in IM5, where the user can be identified, who is blocking the database?

Is there a possibility to start IM5 automatic in read-only-modus?

[Mario]

1. No. IMatch checks if it can open the database in exclusive write mode (file system access mode) and it that fails, it opens the database in read-only mode. It cannot tell why the file is locked of by which application. The locking application may be not IMatch.

2. See Database menu > Open Databases read-only, and the corresponding help topic.

[Gerd]

Hi Mario,

in a network it is important to prevent, that read-only-users can change the preferences.

Is there a possibility to control access to the preferences with a password?

[Mario]

No. Every user can change his preferences and global preferences.