Filemaker Pro 8.5 Educational Maintenance T0 TJ087LL/A User Manual

Get(AccountName)

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, Get(AccountName) returns the name of the 

 being used by the current user of the 

the default Admin account, Get(AccountName) returns 

. If a user is using the 

FileMaker Pro guest account then 

 will be returned.

For external server authentication, Get(AccountName) returns the name of the 
authenticated account being used by the current user of the database file, not the group 
the user belongs to (the group name appears in the 

 list when you define 

accounts and privileges in FileMaker Pro). If an individual belongs to more than one group 
(account), the first group name listed when you 

while 

defining accounts and privileges determines access for the user.

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If you specify the 

 for the current calculation, this function will be evaluated 

based on that context; otherwise, it will be evaluated based on the context of the 
current window.

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See FileMaker Pro help for information about running 

 in client/server and 

peer-to-peer environments.

Returns 

 when Marketing is the name of the account that was used to log in to 

the database file.

Get(ActiveFieldContents)

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