Re: Record was Change

Scott, 
What he is saying is to check the old/new buffer and see if they differ at 
all.  A lot of times an edit program does an UPDATE when actually no 
update was really performed.  Thus you've lost your old history if you 
update the timestamp.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 





Scott Mildenberger <scottmildenberger@xxxxxxxxx>
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That is why it is a good idea to use a trigger to update the
"job stamp" info, then it is consistently updated regardless of
what other programs do.

Scott Mildenberger
--- keith_mccully@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> I've used file "job stamps" a lot and normally find them very
> useful. Just
> one caveat: make sure that there is control over usage and
> updates. For
> example, I've seen too many "edit record" programs that update
> the "job
> stamp" change details regardless of whether anything has
> actually been
> changed (confirm = No)!
> 



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