Stopping Omnis from asking for a Datafile

Isn’t Omnis returning a too many users error message before it pops a choose datafile dialog?!

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> On 2 Nov 2017, at 11:44, Mike Matthews <omnis@lineal.co.uk> wrote:
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> Hello Rankin,
>
> The answer is no, you can’t stop Omnis from asking for a datafile, I think. Which could lead users to connect to a dummy datafile and not be any the wiser, until people start noticing missing data, etc.
>
> So can you stop Omnis from asking for a connection to a DF1 if the licences are all in use, either due to valid or invalid logons?
>
> Mike
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> Mike Matthews, Managing Director, Lineal Software Solutions Ltd
>
> Apple Reseller, Microsoft Partner, SQLWorks Business Partner
> phone: 01271 375999 | web: lineal.co.uk <www.lineal.co.uk/> | email: mike.matthews@lineal.co.uk <mailto:mike.matthews@lineal.co.uk>
>> On 2 Nov 2017, at 09:02, Wendy <wizardcompserv@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Or it could be that a user is logged in twice taking up 2 licences.
>>
>> Even if the path to the database is held and can be seen by the software
>> this would not prevent this happening.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Wendy Osbaldestin
>>
>> —–Original Message—–
>> From: omnisdev-en [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces@lists.omnis-dev.com] On Behalf
>> Of Mirko Pepa
>> Sent: 02 November 2017 06:56
>> To: OmnisDev List – English
>> Subject: Re: Stopping Omnis from asking for a Datafile
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> Perhaps you have just 20 omnis licences. This Happens to me, when the
>> licenses are all used.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Mirko
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>>> Am 01.11.2017 um 21:59 schrieb Rankin Darby <darbyrr@gmail.com>:
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>>> When the datafile has 20 users logged on, someone tries to log on to
>>> Omnis and Omnis pops up a file manager window wanting the User to pick a
>> datafile.
>>>
>>> This scenario happened on one of our Intake computers and the user
>>> pointed the application to a test Omnis datafile.
>>>
>>> Anyone know how to stop Omnis from doing this ??
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