I used a variation of your method for routing around an SQL Server trigger, by setting a certain bit on the record and checking, in the trigger code, whether or not that bit was set.

I was just trying to avoid doing that in FoxPro, because it's not as neat... T-SQL has the update() function, and I don't know of an analog in VFP.

Anyway, I ended up creating a dummy procedure that's the same name as the trigger. If the data is changed from my form, the trigger calls the dummy procedure (because of how I arranged my SET PROCEDURE calls), but otherwise, it calls the original trigger.

Thanks!