Yes, forcing non-developers on FMPA wasn’t helpful and adds to potential issues.
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Sorry @AndyHibbs, the idiot crown is mine for achievements in stupid typos. You can be Vice-Roy if you want 
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We have always installed FMPA on all user machines ( site license ). That allows us to step in and look at the data viewer and script debugger without having to recreate the scenario they ( inaccurately ) describe to us.
There aren’t really any security concerns, since using the tools still requires Full Access to use.
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so you install on all users with advanced tools on? Otherwise the Data Viewer would not be shown …
Correct.
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When developing on Mac, the ‘Record’ menu item has
- New Record (Cmd+N)
- Duplicate Record (Cmd+D)
- Delete Record (Cmd+E)
It happened to my a few times that I did Cmd+D in browse mode, inadvertently creating a record. In layout mode the command creates a copy of a selected object.
I always install a custom menu set, also for development, that does not contain the perilous three. If ever needed in development, a menu set toggle button comes in handy.
Please use option in MBS Plugin preferences to make ESC to Option-ESC to avoid accidentally closing dialogs to early.
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I will never understand, how someone can “accidentally” hit the esc key. What on earth are you doing with your little finger up there? 
Maybe it’s because I’m not able to write with 10 fingers…?
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well… When working on the new MacBooks with the touch-bar, I’m hitting every now and then the escape key - what is no longer a key but an area on that touch bar…
If Your a little bit ‘height’ with Your hand and the little finger is a bit stretched… booom!
You will lose any comment in the scripts, You will lose all those 1’000’000 characters in the custom function - window…
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You don’t need to hit it.
It’s touch, so if you finger just moves a bit higher near top left keyboard, it’s pressed.
We wait for new MacBook Pro with a real ESC key.
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I have a MacBook Pro with touch bar too but this never happened to me so far. But as I said: I don’t use my pinky at all for writing.
seems to be a habit, I often have the small finger a bit stretched, happens quite some times, mostly in stressy situations
Another, just because you can, should you? See: US Navy to ditch touch screen ship controls - BBC News - if the US navy can collide with a container ship that resulted in 10 sailors sadly losing their life, I can totally see why Markus could accidentally ‘brush’ the touch ESC key.
One of the reasons for my MacBook Air, no touch bar. Belongs in the bin with the butterfly keyboards.
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This leads to 2 conclusions:
- It’s a wise decision by the US Navy to ditch the touch screen
- We won’t never let @Markus get control of a US Navy vessel!
btw., according to the FileMaker User Agreement, you’re not allowed to use your FileMaker 12 license to control a Navy Boat. No nuclear power plant either or “… else where life could get at risk”!
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My laptop (dell studio 17") pad is so sensitive that when I type, just the static or heat from my hand over it can be read as a tap. The ensuing action, often a select all, while I’m in the process of typing, overwrite the entire text I was typing at the following keystroke.
I know there is a disable function for the touch pad (don’t remember what it is) but if I forget my mouse, I still need the pad.
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Try Fn+F3 to enable/disable the trackpad. The one on my Inspiron 17 is a real punishment 
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Hey I love my TouchBar!
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Ditto @Mark . The rest of you sound like fat-fingered grouches.
My touchbar gives me colour previews of web pages instead of text tabs. And emoticons, and all sorts of things that are hidden beneath the ctrl-click submenus.
…and you can sink a ship😜
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