Apply Filter For Specific Users

[Jade]

I have a form where I want employees to only be able to
see records that are their own. There's an employee name
field. I set a password and users for the db and thought
that maybe I could apply a filter so that the employee
name field would equal the username of the person logging
into the db. But is there a way to reference the
username? Or is there an easier way of going about
this. Thanks for the help in advance.

Jade

 

[Adrian Jansen]

You will have to have a field in your employee table filled with the actual
username for each. Then you can set up a form filtered by UserName(), and
it should only show the matching record.


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Regards,

Adrian Jansen
J & K MicroSystems
Microcomputer solutions for industrial control

 

[Allen Browne]

If you have set up Access security, CurrentUser() will give you the name of
the logged in user.

A user with very little knowledge could click the Remove Filter toobar
button to remove a filter. It may be better to use the form's Open event to
dynamically change it's RecordSource, e.g.:

Private Sub Form_Open(Cancel As Integer)
Me.RecordSource = "SELECT * FROM MyTable Where [EmployeeName] = """ &
CurrentUser() & """;"
End Sub