>>>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
>
>why not
>lcAlias = alias()
>select * from child into cursor temp order by status
>go top
>lcStatus = temp.status
>use in temp
>select &lcAlias
>begin transaction

this does it
thanks dave