>I have a few fields on a stand alone table where I want to save a log of all changes.
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>Do I write to the log file in the VALID method? And do I know that I need to do so by saving a flag that INTERACTIVECHANGE was called (in case they just tabbed through)?
I would use table triggers, that way, wherever you do the changes, those changes are logged - even changes in interactive commands like BROWSE, etc.
See my article "A basic audit trail", Universal Thread Magazine, May 2003.
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