With Portfolio 5.0 you can now open the catalog as administrator. Only one person can open the catalog as administrator. In this case the catalog will not be visible to other users trying to connect to the database. As soon as the catalog is closed or the access is changed to Publisher, Editor, or Reader the catalog will appear again. User based access is a new feature that allows you as the administrator to assign access levels and passwords to individual users.
Level based access is a single password for the four different levels.
After you create your catalogs, you can put them on a CD or other media along with the browser and distribute them to customers, vendors, family members, et cetera. For more information, check the PC-CDguide.pdf, which is included with Portfolio Browser for Windows. The old catalogs must be opened in Administrator mode in order to convert the catalog into a Portfolio 5.0 catalog. Portfolio can catalog any Macintosh or PC file.