>I am looking for a better solution that this, please don't take no offense. Just for curiosity, what message do you display to user B when they try to save their data?
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>In my example, user B would be pretty mad if they spent time editing a record only to find out their data entry is going to be discarded because someone else updated the record first.
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>Anyone else have suggestions? Thank you in advance.

Well, if you feel this way, you could always bring down the newer record, compare it to the record that you updated, and somehow merge the changes.