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Lock the Practice CS database

There may be times when you need to prevent other staff from accessing your Practice CS database. This will occur most often if you're doing some kind of maintenance on the database, such as updating projects, or at the end of your processing period when you're running your month-end reports.
Practice CS provides a way for you to lock the database so only selected staff can open it.
To lock the Practice CS database, select
Tools
 then
Lock/Unlock Database
.

Lock Database tab

The
Lock Database
 tab is where you can lock and unlock the database, indicate which staff can access the database while it is locked, and enter a message that other staff, who are not authorized to access the database when it is locked, will receive when they attempt to open Practice CS.
  1. To lock the database, select the
    Restrict access to Administrators
     checkbox. This will lock the database to all staff members except those assigned to the Administrator security group.
  2. To enable access by additional staff members while the database is locked, select the
    Permit additional Staff to access a locked database
     checkbox. Then select
    More
     at the end of the following line and select the additional staff members you'd like to grant access to the database while it's locked.
  3. To display a message to staff who are not authorized to access the database while it's locked when they attempt to sign in, enter the message in the
    Display this message to Staff who are denied access to a locked database
     field.
  4. Select
    Apply
     to lock the database with the restrictions you specified.
  5. To unlock the database, unmark the
    Restrict access to Administrators
     checkbox.
  6. Select
    Apply
     to unlock the database, then select
    OK
     to close the window.

Send Message tab

The
Send Message
 tab lets you send a message to staff who are currently signed into Practice CS and sign out selected staff who haven’t responded to the request to sign out.
  1. Select
    Refresh
     to ensure the list of
    Staff currently logged in to the database
     is up to date. You can do this as many times as necessary.
  2. In the
    Send a message
     field, enter the message you want to send to staff asking them to sign out of Practice CS.
  3. Do 1 of the following:
    • To send this message to all staff currently logged in (except administrators and additional staff you specified on the
      Lock Database
       tab), select
      Send to All
      .
    • To send this message to selected staff, select the staff members from the list and then select
      Send to Selected
      .
  4. To sign out staff members who don’t respond to the message, select the staff members from the list and select
    Logout selected
    .
  5. Select
    OK
     to close the Lock/Unlock Database window.

This article applies to:

  • Product: Practice CS