>>Is the best way to save a record entail first scattering the current record's data to memvar and editing the memvars or directly editing the live record?
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>I would say to use buffering.
Can you issue " =cursorsetprop("buffering",) " once in the program to have all databases accessed thru-out the app to always have pessimistic bufering?
I mean how would you set the buffering on a form with a rowsource?
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