David -
Thanks for your help on this. Now that I can fire a trigger, do you know how to identify the field that caused the trigger to fire? AS in:

cMessage = alias() + '.' + thefield + ' was changed.'

and of course the next step will be to get the before and after values.

Thanks

>Don,
>
>Try:
>
>

>storehistory()
>

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>>I've created a stored procedure in the database as
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>>procedure storehistory
>>wait window 'record changed'
>>

>>
>>then modi stru thetable
>>and add
>>storehistory
>>in the update trigger.
>>
>>browse the table and modify a value produces an error to the effect that the variable storehistory is not found. What am I doing wrong?