>Greetings all,
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>I'm currently having data update problems in a multiuser environment. I'm guessing that this problem existed in earlier versions of our application but is quite apparent right now.
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>When a single user creates or edits an invoice ( or order draft, etc..) everything is okay ( all the proper tables are being updated ) but as soon as we have multiple users editing and creating, sometimes a few of the tables won't be properly updated, for example, the numbers in the inventory will be wrong.
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>I'm sure there is no "quick-fix" to this problem (but still hoping there is) but i'm looking for any ideas or things to watch for.
>Transactions are in use as follows when the user clicks the "Finish" button:
>Begin trans
>mess with data (replace, etc..)
>tableupdate(1, .f., 'sometable') (as many as needed.. also the error handler will alert me if update conflict occurs, which it hasn't, so I assume no update conflicts)
>end transaction
>
>sometimes many transactions will take place, with no messing with data between transactions.
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>Praying for a miracle, ;-D
>Jonathan Chan
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>Thanks all, UT has helped a great deal in the past and now I'm back for more ;-)
>One day, I hope to be able to help out as much as others have helped me.

Don't forget low-level stuff: is your network Novell, with older Novell client software on the workstations?