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    Ekhart is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Different levels of access to same database.


    Is there a way to set up different levels of access to different people to the same database in Access 2016? For instance allow everyone access to reports 1 through 4, but also only allow someone from management to access 5 through 6. Sorry if this is posted elsewhere, but it seems like semi-related topics I can find are for older versions of Access and either the way to do things has changed or been removed.

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    I have a tUser table: userID,Level
    the user is detected,and each form checks the level,and allows/disallows entry into forms,reports,etc.
    (via vba)

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    You can have a table as ranman suggests. I would also advise you to research Role Based Access Control(RBAC) just enough to understand the basic concepts. You might consider 3 or 4 Roles --GeneralUser, SuperUser, Administrator, TechnicalDeveloper or similar. Whatever makes sense in your environment.
    Assign users to roles -that way you can add new users or others to certain roles that restricts/constrains what they have access to/can do.

    You will need to put filters/controls on the various objects which you want to manage.

    There is nothing built-in to Access to do this.

    Here is a forum dialog that you may find helpful (review the concepts )

    Good luck.

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