I'm not sure what you mean by "one situation"? One form? There will be lots of forms, but they all follow the same logic. Denying access to editing the header takes care of it because if they can't edit the header, they can't edit the detail. So there's no need to lock the other tables.

Michelle

>Well, your logic is the same as ours : header locked means no (update) entry to the order (etc.) lines. So I guess your app deals with one such a situation only ? hmm, we have a couple of hundred (near 1,000 in fact).
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>Good luck to you too.
>Thanks.
>Peter
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