Paul;

This might be an Operating System issue along with VFP. Which OS are you using? How about asking Drew or post the question on the VMP forum?

Tom


>Tom,
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>We are talking varying amounts of time. Generally, 2+ minutes. If I have the customer come out of the form and then select the table and browse it..then reenter the form the data will be refreshed. This definitely happens with Adds and I am pretty sure with edits as well.
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>A common situation is that an inventory sku is created on one machine and then when you try to pull this sku up on another workstation (for example, an invoice program) it is not found.
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>All tables are opened at app startup and then I have the tables relevant to each form in the data environment of the respective form. The forms have a private data session.
>
>
>>Paul;
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>>Have you posted this at
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>>http://vmpdiscussion.visionds.com/
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>>I hate to get off on the wrong path with this.
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>>1. How much time are we talking about?
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>>2. Is this a new record or edit?
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>>3. How are the other users "finding" the new data?
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>>     A.  Searching for data?
>>     B.  Expecting an automatic refresh?
>>

>>
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>>It is always a bit hard to understand what a user expects. Sometimes I am a user! :)
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>>Tom
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>>>I have a commercial app developed in VFP 6.0 and Visual Maxframe. I have many clients that complain of records input on one workstation don't show on the other workstations for a delayed period of time.
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>>>I have done a lot of research on this and have come to the conclusion that I need to change my base form classes to issue an rlock() on all open tables. Is this a correct conclusion? Is anyone else doing this?
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>>>I was wondering where would be the best place to put this code. Would it be in the init of my base form class?
>>>
>>>Any better solutions?
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>Paul Acton