I have a customer requirement/desire. The system is (among other things) essentially a employee time sheet. The manager wants for an employee to not be able to modify a given row in the table they enter time into once it is committed. I personally see issues with this, but I am willing to try to give him what he wants. If it creates issues we can sort them out, once he sees the issues. The only way I see to do this is to add a column (call it lock). I will then set this up as a default entry with a value of TRUE. The form the employee uses to enter this will, of course, not display this column. The I will create a function that on UPDATE, checks for the presence of the 1 in this row, and rejects the update. Then I will give the manager a form where he can set this flag to FALSE. Looks ugly, and convulsed to me. Is here a more "database native" way to handle this? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
