I simply want to have the system popup a dialog informing a user that the record they are in is already open but I do not want to lock it unless changes are made.

>Um, I may be missing your point...but if that's an issue, why not use pessimistic buffering?
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>>If a table has OPTIMISTIC ROW BUFFERING how can the system check if a record is open (i.e. being displayed on someonese screen but not necessarily being changed)?
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>>Unless someone changes data, the record is not locked so RLOCK() does not help.
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>>I am looking for something like USED() but relating to records (not tables.)