>Here is a code segment that I am using to produce a claim number for a child table. It does a lookup in a table to see if any claims have already been entered for the current account. If so, it increments the last used claim number and returns the new claim number. If a claim has not been entered for the current account, it will add a record to the claimnumbers table and set the claim number to 1 for the current account.
>
>This routine works fine with local data. However, when running with shared data on a file server, the append blank is not appending. Can anybody tell me why?
>
>nArea = select()
>select claimnumbers
>
>if seek(account.a_id, 'CLAIMNUMBERS', 'PRIMARY')
>
> if DJ_RecLock()
> nClaimNo = claimno + 1
> replace claimno with nClaimNo
> unlock
> else
> nClaimNo = -1
> endif
>
>else
> append blank
>
> nClaimNo = 1
> replace a_id with account.a_id, claimno with nClaimNo
>endif
>
>select (nArea)
>
>return nClaimNo
>
>Thanks
>Dan Jurden
>dan_jurden@ciccorp.com

Try to issue
select claimnumbers
right before APPEND BLANK, or even better use
INSERT into claimnumbers Values(..)