So we have FME Desktop installed in Citrix, so a multi-user environment. We have the named connections store file located on the file system with a lot of pre-defined connections in it, mostly database connections. So we give users read access to the folder the named connections store file located in, so users can use the named connections we have set up.

Some of our users have AGOL connections they want to set up, these are private to themselves, but they want to use these in conjunction with our other pre-defined connections, so they all need to be in the same named connections store file as far as I know

So the issue is, since we have only given most folks Read only access to the folder (we like security), they cannot themselves create their own private AGOL connection in the named connections store file. Temporarily giving the user read write on the folder where the connection file is, so they can create their AGOL conn would probably be the logical solution, but the way we manage folder permission on the common file systems is kind of a long and onerous process.

Is there anyway a person (like a connection manager) can create a connection for another user and make it private for that other user ?