Kevin,

The original intent of this post was:

I need to validate all related business objects before executing the event to populate the related views. Shouldn't the framework have a way of validating all data entry before saving?

TIA

Rex

> I'm not sure if this does what we talked about on this thread... the docs dont describe it well & dont have the chance to dig into today but I'm up here now & thought I would toss it out.>
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>IsChanged() does use GETFLDSTATE to determine if the InitialSelectedAlias has changed. If the business object has any children (and its lCascadeMessages is .T.) it also checks to see if any child object's InitialSelectedAlias message has changed.
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>Regards,