Hi Midhun,
I like Paul's thorough response.
I thought I'd mention that there is a simpler / easier-to-remember way of
detecting the logged-in user's name from a macro:
Function ReturnUserName() As String
UserName = Environ("USERNAME")
End Function
It is slightly less secure, since the environment variable could be fairly
easily modified by a knowledgeable user (in other words Paul's method is
actually preferable). But no security you implement in Excel will be "high
security" anyway.
If the data you are hiding is of an actual confidential nature, I would
recommend instead using a macro to generate a copy of the spreadsheet that
only contains the data for a single user, and sending that to the end-user.
Asa
From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com [mailto:excel-macros@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Paul Schreiner
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 12:06 PM
To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ detecting loggedin user
Here's something I threw together from macros I already had.
I didn't spend too much time on it.
I hope they have what you're looking for.
There are several things you MENTIONED that I tried to include.
Since you want the user to view ONLY his performance,
I added filters to the "YTD Output" sheet and protected it with a password
"testpassword".
(you can change it to whatever you wish)
The file should be saved with only blank rows displayed and password
protected.
You'll also want to password protect your VBA project so that the users
won't be able to
open the VBEditor and read the sheet password.
When the user opens the file, it determines the user's ID based on his/her
Windows login.
It then updates the Userid in the "YTD Performance" sheet.
A change Event on this sheet checks for a changed userid and calls a
function
that unprotects the Output sheet, changes the filter to include only the
userid,
then re-protects the sheet.
hope this gives you enough to work with to complete your task.
Paul
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From: Midhun Thampan <midhun.tham...@gmail.com>
To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com
Sent: Mon, September 10, 2012 1:04:27 PM
Subject: $$Excel-Macros$$ detecting loggedin user
Hi All;
This is a excel file which has a database which will be locked.
Just need a code tht will detect only the information of user who logs
on the computer.
Our system is logged in via 5 digit userid so as someone opens this
file his userid should detected so tht he can only view his particular
performance..
Kindly help, i tried but did not work.
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Midhun
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