I think what their referring to there is the update trigger. The reason for this is that if you were to change the record during this routine it would be triggered infinitely in a loop.

>I have a VFP 3.0 book that states "record level validation code cannot change any field in the current record". I am trying to have my validation update a field in the same record, and it works fine. Should I not be doing this or is the statement invalid?
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>Bob