I have a licensing class that I created that runs on a timer. It adds a record to a table when people sign in and updates a time stamp on a specified interval so I can know how long they have been in the program. It works good with 1 exception.

Periodically the timer fires that updates the record and the selected alias changes. It then causes problems in certain modules that happen to be open. In the timer code i always set the alias back to what it was when going into the code but I guess something with the sequencing causes problems with it.

Putting the timer in a private data session would do the trick. I created a classed form and put my timer on it. Set datasession to private and set buffering to 5 for the table in question. It works ok. No more alias getting changed but now I can't access those records from other machines because it says the records are in use by another user.

Does anyone know how to get those records accessable again. I use them to send messages to specific machines as well as other uses.

Thanks in advance.