How exactly do you "deal with contention issues"? If two people are allowed to edit the same record, and they both make a bunch of changes, what's the fair way of deciding who gets to keep theirs? Seems easier to me to just not allow a person to edit while someone else is... Unless I'm missing something?

Thanks,

Michelle


>There aren't a lot of cases where you need to do this. Unless the probability of two users editing the same record is fairly high, or there's some other reason you need to keep a record locked while it's being edited, I would just use buffering. Then, check the result of TABLEUPDATE and deal with contention issues if it returns .F.