Gregory,

How would I distingush between insert and update? I don't want to change these fields if it's a new record. I only want to update them if I'm changing the record. Also is there an easy way to find the PK field?

>Nadya,
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>I think you can do so in the RecordValidation rule of the base tables
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>You can use getfldstate(-1)
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>For inserts, just replace tLast_Updated_Date and cLast_Updated_User
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>For updates, loop using getfldstate(-1) and if getfldstate(-1) indicates a change for a field, compare the fieldvalue to the oldval() in case a field is changed and reset to its old value
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>The only drawback is that the RecordValidation rule does not fire for a delete as far as I can see. Don't know whether that is a problem for you
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>>Hi everybody,
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>>In our tables we have tLast_Updated_Date and cLast_Updated_User fields. How can we update these fields if we change our tables? Is it possible to do in a view? What if the view consists of several tables and two of them needs to be updated?
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>>How do you solve this problem?
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>>Thanks in advance.