Given:
parent table w/ id & status fields.
child table w/ parents id & its own status field.
status is some value between 1 and 9.

If I change the status of one of the children I want to update the parent with the least value of all of its children.

So with both childrens' status = 3 parents status will be 3, but if child #1 status changes to 1 i want parents' status to = 1.

update procedure on the child table:

PROCEDURE _child_Update
LOCAL lcItem, lcStatus, lcOldError, llError
lcItem=child.itemid
lcStatus=child.status
lcOldError=ON("ERROR")
ON ERROR llError=.T.
llError=.F.
SELECT child && is this legal in trigger?
SCAN FOR child.itemid = lcItem
IF status < lcStatus
lcStatus = status
ENDIF
ENDSCAN
BEGIN TRANSACTION
UPDATE parent ;
SET status=lcStatus;
WHERE parent.itemid=lcItem
ON ERROR &lcOldError
IF llError
ROLLBACK
RETURN .F.
ELSE
END TRANSACTION
ENDIF
RETURN .T.

All I'm getting back is that the trigger failed.
Looks like the scan is only finding one record.
Though I know there are multiple children.

Thanks, kim