Hello Tami,


Tami Williams wrote:
> Or, is this a way to get around record locking.
No it is not.

The Parent record will still be locked.  There is no way to to stop the 
parent record from being opened and locked when you edit a child 
record.  This is a core principle in how FileMaker handles data.  I know 
that at times like this it seems like a pain in the ass, but it is 
actually A VERY GOOD THING :-)

If you want to use this kind of an interface, and many people do, you 
have to make sure that each user ( or machine ) has their own record to 
work off of.  This is often done by creating a record on login for each 
user ( or machine ).  This is why some people call the this table a 
"Session" table.  Each "session" gets it's own record in the Session table.

Hope that helps.


Todd


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