Thanks, that will be useful. What I cant figure out is how to bypass the trigger failed. Basically, I just want to automatically revert and then display a brief wait window message with timeout.

Regards
Geoff Scott

>>Hi
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>>I am wanting to create a rule that prevents records from being deleted if there are records in a child table. I can do this quite easily via referential integrity but I dont want the standard mesage to display. I believe this can be stopped by buffering the table and using ones own messages but doesn't work with views where the table is not buffered.
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>>Is there a way to prevent the standard error message coming up in all cases?
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>>Regards
>>Geoff Scott
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>You mean the standard message "trigger failed", right?
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>What I did is create a function that searches for child records, before trying to delete. If there are child records, I show my own message instead. I used the same message for all tables: "The record is being used in table (tablename)".
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>I don't have the corresponding function available right now, but I can search for it when I am back at home, in about a week, if you are interested.