>Steve,
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>Thanks.
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>Yes, that is the problem. The new parent record is still in the buffer. It is, however, detrimental that the updating of the parent record is part of the transaction because then if something goes wrong, none of the parent tables nor the children tables should be updated.
>
>Regards,
>Evelyn

Evelyn,

What would be wrong issuing tableUpdate() to parent before adding children? Couldn't you still rollback the entire transaction if there is a problem?